The Ascent of Mount St. Elias, Alaska: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Ascent of Mount St. Elias, Alaska, credited to Filippo De Filippi, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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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

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Ascent of Mount St. Elias, Alaska
• Author credits: Filippo De Filippi
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 4:56:33

Catalogue topics

• America
• Alaska
• Mountaineering
• mount st. elias
• first ascent

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 13:45
2. 01 - From Turin to Seattle — 19:14
3. 02 - From Seattle to Juneau — The Alexander Archipelago and Alaska — 19:14
4. 03 - From Juneau to Yakutat — The Muir Glacier, Sitka, and the Coast Range — 22:26
5. 04 - The History of Mount St. Elias — 38:40
6. 05 - The Malaspina Glacier — 48:20
7. 06 - Seward Glacier, Dome Pass, and Agassiz Glacier — 38:36
8. 07 - Newton Glacier — 31:50
9. 08 - The Ascent of Mount St. Elias — 28:30
10. 09 - Return from Mount St. Elias to Yakutat — 25:20
11. 10 - Back to Europe — From Yakutat to London — 10:38

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