Dangling at 19,000 Feet.(rescue at Alaska's Mount McKinley)

Newsweek | July 6, 1998| | Copyright

Behind a daring rescue on Mt. McKinley at the peak of a treacherous season

THE ROCK LEDGE WAS ABOUT THE size of a large tabletop, a granite saddle hemmed in by icy slopes. Perched just beneath the 20,320-foot summit of Mount McKinley, Martin Spooner huddled inside his thin nylon bivouac bag. A two-foot wall of packed snow provided little protection from the 70-mile-an-hour winds and the swirling flakes that hammered the mountain for three days and nights. When the sun disappeared behind the peaks after midnight, the temperature plummeted to 50 degrees below zero. ...

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