Bonney Starbird

Greatest climbing story of all time!

Revisado: 06-29-23

The recount of this climbing saga was utterly captivating and very difficult to put down. I would have read this book sooner if I'd known it existed. The final climb takes place in 1980. That was the year I lost a good friend on Denali. I have always wondered what this mountain was like back then, what did my friend face? And this book answered a lot of questions. Well-researched, with excerpts from personal journals, it tells of the compelled lives of extreme adventurers, how different they are from the rest of us and how very much the same. You don't have to be a climber to relate to this book. There is not a lot of technical language, but enough to make you feel truly there. This book will stay with you awhile. I feel that I have climbed Denali from my headphones. Given that my friend travelled to the mountain at the same time, I wondered whether there would be any clue or sign that their paths crossed. Near the end of the book, the last climber to leave the mountain spoke with 4 Canadian climbers before flying out of the base camp. Those four climbers were never found again, and one of them was my friend. And now I know a little bit more about what happened. Ever grateful to this author for taking the time to recount one of the greatest mountain climbing stories of all time.

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