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...news over Memorial Day weekend was grim but not really surprising. At Yosemite Valley in California, the body of Derek Hersey, a renowned Alpinist whose unforgiving specialty was rock-wall climbing done solo and without the protection of belays, was found below Sentinel Peak. And on Alaska's Denali (Mount McKinley), descending unroped in darkness down an icy chute called Orient Express, Charles Cearley, 40, a mountaineer from Seattle, fell 3,000 ft. and died...
...sorry truth is that too many climbers are there already, at least on the big-name peaks. At the time Cearley fell to his death on Denali, 489 other climbers were somewhere on the famous mountain, America's highest. During the week just before, 147 had reached the summit. "Believe it or not, sometimes it can get kind of crowded up there," says Denali park ranger Kathy Sullivan...
...idea of managing the elements that I like," he says. "In the wilderness or in competition, it takes planning and preparation to succeed." Norwegian ski officials were as mortified over Ulvang's Greenland trek as they had been the previous year when he climbed Alaska's 20,320-ft. Denali, the former Mount McKinley. But not even the most timorous Norwegian trainer is complaining now. Ulvang and his teammate Bjorn Daehlie each won three golds and a silver, leading the national team to 20 medals, a phenomenal haul in light of Norway's population of only 4.2 million. Ulvang...
Contestants in the hero game had to produce results to keep their wealthy backers interested, and Herbert makes it clear that Peary feigned a "farthest north" record at about the time Cook, astonishingly, was counterfeiting a first ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley). To what degree Peary admitted to himself that he was a fraud is unknown. So is the extent to which Matthew Henson, his unswerving black assistant, understood the fudging. Herbert writes sympathetically of all these voyagers, whose real accomplishments were extraordinary. They were married to the Arctic, and perhaps the truth of the matter was that if they...
...supplies of raw caribou meat, seal oil, fruit and fuel to melt snow for water would have been exhausted the day after he was spotted from the air. Even so, they held out hope. "Uemura has been in tough situations before," declared Tom Griffiths, chief ranger from Denali National Park. "If anyone can survive this ordeal, he can." Said Uemura's wife Kimiko in Tokyo: "The only thing I can do now is pray for his safety. It's been so often like this with my husband...