The Ascent of Mount St. Elias, Alaska [Written by Filippo De Filippi]

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291147 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ascent of Mount St. Elias, Alaska Author: Filippo De Filippi Narrator: Phil Schempf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: January 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Although Mount St. Elias had been known to native Americans for thousands of years and to Europeans since 1741 when Vitus Bering saw the peak and gave it its current name, it was not successfully climbed until 1897 by a party lead by Prince Luigi Amadeo di Savoia, Duke of the Abruzzi. This is the story of that expedition. Mount St. Elias was not climbed again for another 50 years when the advent of air support made the logistics of the climb less daunting. - Summary by Fritz