A most hostile mountain
re-creating the Duke of Abruzzi's historic expedition on Alaska's Mount St. Elias
1st ed.
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Word Count
63,250 words, Guess
Page Count
253 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL662812M
- ISBN-100805044531
- OCLC Control Number36629894
- OCLC Control Numbermosthostilemount00wate
- Library of Congress Control Number97008314
and 2 more
- Goodreads111993
- LibraryThing1901003
Classifications
- DDC917.19/1
- LCCF912.S15 W38 1997
Description
A century ago, Alaska's forbidding Mount St. Elias, the second-highest peak in the United States, was summited for the first time, not by American pioneers, but by a team led by an Italian nobleman, Luigi of Savoy, duke of Abruzzi. Sailing north from Seattle in turbulent waters, the duke and his team disembarked along the Alaskan coast and worked their way on foot across the glistening and breathtaking Malaspina Glacier, hauling thousands of pounds of equipment to the base of the great mountain, which they ultimately surmounted after a grueling and perilous climb. Now acclaimed author Jonathan Waterman adds the ways of the mariner to his considerable mountaineering experience to retrace the duke's historic land-sea expedition.
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