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A READER'S GUIDE TO THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING 1981 MT MCKINLEY ACCIDENT 1st ed Paperback Fine Multiple copies available. SIGNED by Joe Wilcox
By Wilcox, Joe
Price: $125.00


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Gig Harbor Washington, 1981, 1st edition. 100 pp, b/w photos. Privately printed paperback, Fine condition

This copy is SIGNED by Joe Wilcox inside the rear cover.

A rebuttal to Snyder's accusations in Hall of the Mountain King

Scarce book on the Joe Wilcox expedition disaster on Mount McKinley in 1967 where 7 members of the party died. Wilcox gave his account of the expedition in White Winds.

This newer book has always been a scarce as it was hardly a best seller..... or even a real book......  when published in 1981. I can't imagine that Wilcox sold many copies. I also suspect it was carried only at REI, and I doubt for very long. The price was $1 or $2.
(We saw the price on an original price label from 1981 since carefully removed.). 
Several books have been written on this 1967 Denali tragedy: Joe Wilcox's White Winds; Joe Wilcox's Reader's Guide to Hall of the Mountain King; Howard Snyder Hall of the Mountain King;  James Tabor's Forever on the Mountain; Jeffery Babcock's Should I Not Return; Andy Hall's Denali's Howl.


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