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Denali's Howl is the white-knuckle account of one of themost deadly climbing disasters ever. In 1967, 12 teenagers attemptedto climb Alaska's MountMcKinley - known to the locals as Denali - one of the very most popular and deadly mountaineering destinations on the planet. Only five survived. Journalist Andy Hall, child of the area superintendent at the time, investigates the tragedy. He put in years tracking down survivors, lost documents, and recordings of radio marketing communications. In Denali's Howl, Hall unveils the full report of your expedition facing conditions conclusively established here for the very first time: at an elevation of nearly 20,000 legs, these teenagers endured an "arctic superblizzard", with howling winds as high as 300 miles an hour and wind chill that freezes flesh solid in minutes. All this was minus the high-tech items and equipment climbers use today. Aswell as the story of the men trapped inside the storm, Denali'sHowl is the story of those trapped outside it striving to save them - Hall's dad among them. The book provides listeners an in depth look at the culture of climbing then and now and raises uneasy questions about each player in this tragedy. Was enough done to save the climbers, or were their fates sealed when they ascended in to the path of the unprecedented storm?
