The Wilcox Expedition took place in July 1967, when two climbing groups merged together to climb Denali. (Denali was still referred to as Mount McKinley at that time, and the book does use that name part of the time as well.) Evidently, this mountain has weather events that are unpredictable. Weather can be nice in the morning, and then white out conditions by lunch. There has been a lot of issue taken with the lack of communication/planning/leadership, and while there was human error for certain situations, they did not have control over a super storm that hit the mountain. Unfortunately, this resulted in the deaths of seven out of the twelve that started this expedition. The bodies were left on the mountain, and some of them were never even found to attempt to recover.

I got this book on Audible Plus, which is free with subscription. I really enjoy the rotation of books that they put out, and this book happened to be one of them they added recently. I have had this book on my list for a while, because I am always interested in disasters. I have a morbid addiction to disaster books. Anyway, this book was about five hours to listen to and I really liked it and learned a lot about this particular expedition. I didn't know anything about it beforehand, so this was great.