With frostbitten fingers, Nigel Vardy clicked the bottons on his radio, desperate to relay the message that yes, they need help. They need a rescue. Behind him, his climbing partners hunkered inside of an ice cave trying to stay warm near the summit of Denali.

Come the morning light, thought, they would find that they just might have to rescue themselves.

This is the story of how Nigel Vardy, Stephen Ball and Anthony Hollinshead found themselves to survive North America’s tallest mountain.

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