Facing The Extreme: One Woman’s Story Of True Courage And Death-Defying Survival In The Eye Of Mt. McKinley’s Worst Storm Ever

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She stepped into a death zone. The climbers on Alaska’s Mt. McKinley known as her “the woman.” Ruth Anne Kocour, a world-class mountaineer, wasn’t bothered. It used to be a part of the challenge she faced as she joined an all-male team to triumph over North The usa’s highest peak…the mountain the Indians known as Denali, or God.

Faced the extreme. But nine days into this ascent, a forty-fifth birthday present to herself, the most violent weather on record slammed into the mountain. Ruth Anne and her group would be trapped on an ice shelf at 14,000 feet for the deadliest two weeks in Denali history. Pinned down by blinding snows, unable to help other teams dying around her, and her own feet freezing solid, Ruth Anne tells of a wind chill of minus 150 degrees, deadly hidden crevasses, and being trapped in a place so violent and unforgiving that it threatened to push her over the edge and into a place of no return. And yet, in prose as crystalline as the ice around her, she tells, too, of beauty, courage, and the spirit that drives true mountainers higher, as she risks all to go for the summit…and most likely, for a transcendant moment, touch heaven.

And lived to tell about it.

Ruth Anne Kocour found herself in the midst of a brutal storm with 100-mph wind blasts and plummeting mercury. Problem used to be, she happened to be bivouacked halfway up North The usa’s highest mountain, Alaska’s 20,320-foot Mt. Denali (often referred to as Mt. McKinley). Facing the Extreme is her story of survival against the elements, a struggle that required each last bit of physical and mental endurance–not to mention alpine skills, resourcefulness, and luck. By the end of the storm, 11 climbers were dead. Kocour’s gripping tale is among the few of its kind written by a woman, a refreshing change of voice that reflects a changing demographic in the outdoors community.

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