Escape From Lucania From: The Virginia Quarterly Review | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright University of Virginia Spring 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

In this work, subtitled "An Epic Story of Survival," author Roberts brings his own extensive mountaineering experience to this engaging chronicle of Bradford Washington and Bob Bates' remarkable first ascent in 1937 of the Yukon's Mt. Lucania, at that time the highest peak in North America as yet unclimbed. With their enterprise severely jeopardized at the onset by unseasonably warm weather, the young climbers achieved their summit through a fortuitous combination of daring, courage, determination, stamina, and youthful optimism, only to discover-as the title suggests-that ...

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