By James M. Tabor
In 1967, seven younger males, contributors of a twelve-man day trip led through twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, have been stranded on Alaska's Mount McKinley in a vicious arctic hurricane. All seven perished on what is still the main tragic day trip in American mountain climbing background. Revisiting the development within the culture of Norman Maclean's Young males and Fire, James M. Tabor uncovers components of controversy, finger-pointing, and cover-up that mix to make this catastrophe in contrast to the other.
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The thought made him laugh. It was not, Sharpe suspected, the anticipation of excitement that had brought Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill to this state of near joviality, but rather the thought that a battle would cause casualties and misery, and misery was the Sergeant's delight. He liked to see men cowed and frightened, for that made them biddable, and Sergeant Hakeswill was always at his happiest when he was in control of unhappy men. The three officers had stopped their horses at the head of the column and now used telescopes to inspect the distant ridge which was clouded by a ragged fringe of smoke left from the last discharge of the enemy cannon.
See it? ' His face twitched again as he released the stock. ' 'Mad as a hare, ' Tom Garrard muttered. ' Hakeswill whipped around to stare at Sharpe, but Sharpe was so palpably still and staring mutely ahead that his innocence was indisputable. Hakeswill paced back down the Light Company. 'I have watched men die, better men than any of you pieces of scum, proper men, but God has spared me! So you do what I says, boys, or else you'll be carrion. ' He abruptly thrust the musket back into Sharpe's hands.
Instead he leaned forward in his saddle with one hand clasped over the tiger hilt of his curved sabre as he watched his infantry march on the infidel British. The sword was slung on a silken sash that crossed the pale yellow silk jacket that the Tippoo wore above chintz trousers. His turban was of red silk and pinned with a gold badge showing a tiger's mask. ' Above it, pinned to the turban's brief white plume and brilliant in the day's sunlight, there glittered a ruby the size of a pigeon's egg.