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Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"Two friends embark on a climb of treacherous Anarchy Ridge but only one will make it down alive. Unjustly blamed for his friend's haunting death, the other must run for his life as a mourning father seeks revenge"--
26) High adventure
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
50th anniversary edition.
Language
English
28) The white road
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Desperate to attract subscribers to his fledgling website, "Journey to the Dark Side," ex-adrenaline junkie and slacker Simon Newman hires someone to guide him through the notorious Cwm Pot caves so he can film the journey and put it on his site. After a brutal struggle for survival, Simon barely escapes with his life, but predictably, the gruesome footage he managed to collect down in the earth's bowels goes viral. Ignoring the warning signs of mental...
31) The edge
Author
Series
Peak volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
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
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
[New ed.]
Language
English
Description
Anatoli Boukreev's first-hand account of the worst human disaster in the history of Mt. Everest will hold listeners spellbound. A top-rated guide and high altitude climber, Boukreev dictated the raw and powerful details of this ill-fated trek from memories and notes recorded just five days after the catastrophe. In May of 1996, 33 people went up the mountain, but only 28 returned. As two commercial expeditions climbed the world's highest peak, poor...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 41
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bruce Hyena convinces Geronimo to join him in climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, a task for which the mouse journalist is completely unprepared.
34) The climb
Author
Series
Everest volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Everest. The ultimate climb. The greatest of risks. Four kids are on a quest to reach the top. But their ascent is not easy. The weather is harsh. The competition is harasher. Then the unexpected happens, and the climbing contest becomes a life-or-death rescue mission. No one is guaranteed to survive."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot...
37) Himalaya
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Orrie and her older brother tell the story of a doomed mountain-climbing expedition in which they, their younger brother, their divorced father, and his girlfriend attempt to climb Island Peak in Napal.
38) Everest
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish version]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, the film documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle...
39) High ground
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Eleven wounded U.S. veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, each, dealing with different issues and looking to move on with their lives. They join an expedition to climb the 20,000 foot Himalayan giant Mount Lobuche. Led by blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer and a team of Mt. Everest summiteers as their guides, they set out on an emotional and gripping climb to reach the top and heal the emotional and physical wounds of the longest war in U.S....
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