The Ascent of Mount St. Elias, Alaska

About this film

LibriVox recording of The Ascent of Mount St. Elias, Alaska by Filippo De Filippi. (Translated by Linda White Mazini Villari.) Read in English by Phil Schempf. 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 For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (135MB)

Directors & creators

Filippo De Filippi

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;America; Alaska; Mountaineering; mount st. elias; first ascent

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