The Bond: Survival on Denali and Mount Huntington - Simon McCartney
- Tue, Feb 21, 2017 from 06:00 PM to 08:30 PM
- Mountaineers Books
- The Mountaineers
- iCal
- 6 pm Reception
- 7 pm Author Presentation
Free and open to the public.
The north face of Mount Huntington is one of the most dangerous walls in the Alaska Range, and Denali’s southwest face is one of the largest and most technically difficult. Young and ambitious mountaineers Jack Roberts and Simon McCartney made the first ascents of both, eschewing any notion of fixed ropes or siege tactics. With success as their only option, they got themselves to the foot of these faces with the bare minimum of gear and simply started climbing. The ascent of Mount Huntington’s north face was made in the summer of 1978; that of Denali’s southwest face, in 1980.
“A cannot-put-down book…a large dose of addicting adrenaline coupled with a virtue uncommon in mountaineering literature: insight into the shared and sorely tested feelings of two very different individuals.” – Tom Hornbein, author of Everest: The West Ridge
The Bond, told primarily via McCartney’s first-person narrative and augmented by extracts from the diaries of Roberts and others, shares for the first time the experience of these two challenging climbs—and the strong bond forged between the two climbers. It is, in short, the quintessential climbing story, and the stuff of Legends and Lore.
Book details at www.mountaineersbooks.org/TheBond
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