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2) Meru
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
3) The contest
Author
Series
Everest volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Dominic, Chris, Perry, Tilt, Sammi, Bryn, and Cameron compete with each other to be selected as part of a team of teenage climbers with the goal of ascending Mount Everest.
4) The climb
Author
Series
Everest volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As Tilt, Dominic, Sammi, and Perry ready themselves to ascend Everest, they must deal with altitude sickness, an unknown person's messages to the tabloids about their expedition, and a troubled rescue attempt.
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A filmmaker describes his experiences on an Everest expedition during the devastating storm of 1996 that claimed eight lives, offering a personal view of the challenges, rewards, and risks of mountaineering in the world's high places
6) The summit
Author
Series
Everest volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As Tilt, Perry, Sammi, and Dominic prepare to ascend Mt. Everest, they must deal with low supplies, high altitude, dangerous terrain, government officials, sabotage, and an approaching storm.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In the late morning of May 29, 1953, the sun was shining brightly and a gentle breeze was blowing on the highest elevation of the world--and two men were there to witness it for the first time ever. Their names were Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, and they had ascended Everest. This is the breathtaking story of how two very different, yet equally determined, men battled frost-biting temperatures, tumbling ice rocks, powerful winds, and death-defying...
10) Above all else
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Teen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-olds Rose and Tate are long-time friends and climbing buddies, and now they are embarking on the greatest climb of all--Mount Everest--with Tate's father and another friend; but as the climbers encounter physical and emotional challenges the higher they go, the expedition starts to slide toward disaster, testing the teens' courage and determination"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton, Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Veteran climber Mark Synnott never planned on climbing Mount Everest, but a hundred-year mystery lured him into an expedition--and an awesome history of passionate adventure, chilling tragedy, and human aspiration unfolded"--
12) Dead mountain
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 4
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing their eyes. The case, given...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, an entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world. As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration--set at the world's frozen extremes--lay unclaimed: the North and South Poles and the so-called Third Pole, the "pole of altitude," located in unexplored heights of the Himalayas. Before the calendar turned,...
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