The “inhuman zone” is the point of altitude and frigid cold where man, and all of his gadgets, cease to function as intended. Jim Bridwell and climbing partner, Mugs Stump, found themselves in the inhuman zone as they climbed the Moose’s Tooth in the Alaskan Wild.

Resources:

* “Vantage Point” – this story is an excerpt from this collection of stories about climbing

* Original article “The Dance of the Woo-Li Masters“

* Yosemite’s Green Winter

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