With Sack and Stock in Alaska

In 1888, three men set out to conquer territory no one had ever mapped. George Broke, Harold Topham, and William Williams attempted the first ascent of Alaska's Mt. St. Elias, a peak that had humbled every explorer who came before them. What followed was a harrowing journey across the great Malaspina Glacier, through unnamed ranges, and into the heart of wilderness that had never seen European footprints. Broke writes with the plain-spoken courage of a man who measured success not in glory but in survival, describing the landscapes that stunned them, the weather that nearly killed them, and the strange characters they encountered in this far-flung corner of the world. This is adventure writing before it became romanticized: raw, physical, and utterly without pretense. It endures because it captures what it actually felt like to step into the unknown, to carry your provisions on your back, and to come back having done something no human had done before.