Book review: A 2018 mountain accident in Alaska's Lake Clark National Park grounds a larger story about climbing culture and risk-taking in Michael Wejchert's book “Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong.'
By Michael Wejchert; Ecco/HarperCollins, 2023; 239 pages; $28.99.
The book begins on the fateful day — June 23 — with the two climbing teams — ”bits of humanity enveloped in wilderness and quiet” — making their way up two ridges of the same mountain. The granite peak was not the one they’d planned on, but they’d found the approach to their chosen mountain too difficult and settled on a nearer one, more modest but, still, unclimbed. They knew that all the rock in the area was crumbly and unstable, and they’d vowed to climb carefully and not to fall.
“… with a single text, Lauren had unleashed millions of dollars of training, manpower, and expertise, and all this was now on the verge of barreling toward the coordinates that had, until yesterday, been nothing more than another random, desolate spot in a state brimming with them.”
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