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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to maintain her sense of self and her understanding of the world while spending the first year of her marriage in Kenya, Margaret participates in a climbing expedition to Mt. Kenya and is challenged to come to terms with a devastating accident.
2) The next Everest: surviving the mountain's deadliest day and finding the resilience to climb again
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dramatic account of the deadly avalanche on Everest-and a return to reach the summit. On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed nearly 8,900 people. That day also became the deadliest in the history of Everest,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For most people, climbing the largest mountains in the world is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. For mountain guides, it's just another day at work! Meet the people who risk their lives to help others have adventures on the highest peaks."--
Author
Series
Global Search and Rescue volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jenny Calhoun climbs mountains to forget what she's done, who she was. But this time, when an excursion up Denali turns deadly, she is forced to accept the help of the one man she hoped she'd never see again--the man she nearly killed.
Author
Publisher
[Bantam Doubleday Dell Bks for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
55p
Language
English
Description
Discovering a wrecked B-17 Bomber and the remains of its crew on Devil's Wall mountain, three young climbers, who have become trapped in the same area, learn from the navigator's diary that he used his dead crewman for food
Author
Series
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
[1964]
Physical Desc
128 p. illus. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Aldens climb a mountain and find a mystery! The hike up Old Flat Top was only supposed to take a day, but a dangerous rockslide changes everything to reveal a hidden cave that just may hold a legendary treasure!
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of a climbing adventure gone wrong in a remote Alaskan mountain range, the impossible rescue attempt that followed, and the fraught cost of survival.
In 2018, two couples set out on an expedition to Alaska’s Hidden Mountains, one of the last wild ranges in North America. A rarity in modern climbing, the peaks were nearly unexplored and untouched, a place where few people had ever visited and granite spires still awaited first ascents....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The Terror It's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine high on the shoulder of Mt. Everest. By the following year, three climbers -- a British poet and veteran of the Great War, a young French Chamonix...
15) The edge
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-eighteen-year-old climbers from around the world--but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked, and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a mysterious snow leopard.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
First Pocket Books pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 413 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author recounts his harrowing experience of being trapped for six days in Blue John Canyon in Utah and having to amputate his own right arm in order to save his life.
18) Climbing school
Author
Publisher
Barron Books
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
191 p. : col. photos ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
427 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When River Shara, a great explorer, arrives in her village looking to hire Kamzin for his next expedition, she finds herself racing her sister and a rival explorer up the tallest and deadliest mountain in the Aryas.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
96 p. : ill., col. photos.
Language
English
Description
Author and climber Stephen Venables discusses the history of Mt. Everest, the first successful climb by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953, and the effect that growing Himalayan tourism has had on local people and on the mysterious Mt. Everest itself.