SHOULD I NOT RETURN
by Jeffrey T. Babcock
North American Mountaineering’s Worst Climbing Disaster!
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Should I Not Return
Should I Not Return is the story of a young east coast climber, who joins his brother in Alaska to climb Mount McKinley. What set their climb apart from those before it, and even those afterward, was a disaster of such magnitude that it became know as North America’s worst mountaineering tragedy.
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Mountaineering Club of Alaska
The Upper slopes of Denali, showing the early Pioneer Routes of 1910, 1912, 1913, and the 17,900-foot high camp of both the Wilcox and MCA teams. (Photo Credit: Bradford Washburn, courtesy of the Decaneas Archive, and Betsy Washburn Cabot.)
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Ascenders
“The author is shown above using the ascending devices called ‘jumars’ used by climbers for climbing up a rope. In this case the author is slowly climbing upward from the depths of a deep crevasse on the Eklutna Glacier.”
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“The Fake Peak”
“Frederick A. Cook’s photo of blacksmith Ed Barrill standing atop a peak claimed by Dr. Cook to be the actual summit of Mt. McKinley. In fact, this photo was taken of a peak nearly twenty miles from the true summit of Denali. Barrill’s classic remark to Belmore Browne as they walked the beach at Seldovia convinced Browne that something was awry. “I can tell you all about the big peaks just south of the mountain, but if you want to know about McKinley, go and ask Cook.”
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DEC 28“Book to be released in March!”
Should I Not Return Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Babcock,
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DEC 28Party at McGonagall
The Party at McGonagall Pass from the 1942 Army Mt. McKinley Test Expedition
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DEC 28Author Follows
The author follows his older brother up the steep ridgeline of the South Summit.
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