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Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley
by Art Davidson

Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley
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Author: Art Davidson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-07
ISBN: 0898866871
Number of pages: 242
Publisher: Mountaineers Books

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Book Review: The only book in my 47 years I 've read in one day
Summary: 5 Stars

I found this book in a ranger station near Mt. McKinley (under the visitor center). The ranger was kind enough to invite us in from the pouring rain and we slept there, well they did, I opened this book after dinner and finished it in the wee hours. I could not put it down, and I'm not a mountain climber. The title refers to the coldest temperature on the climbers' wind charts, and it was colder than that. The temperature was off the scale and the wind was blowing so hard these guys were trapped for days and couldn't go up or down. I think a tent even blew away... but it was over 25 years ago that I read the book.. and it still haunts me. Now I've finally found it again and I'm going to order it. At least as good as "Into Thin Air." I'm going to pass it around to all my friends that read that one and "The Climb."

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