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No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant hardships and victories more brilliantly than critically acclaimed author Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest work from such magazines as Outside and Smithsonian, he explores the subject from the unique and memorable perspective of one who has battled peaks like K2, Denali, Everest, and, of course, the Eiger. Always with a keen eye, an open heart, and a hunger for the
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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The author relates his experience of climbing Mount Everest during its deadliest season and examines what it is about the mountain that makes people willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.
4) Breathless
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2022.
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English
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"Journalist Cecily Wong is in over her head. She's come to Mount Manaslu, the eighth highest peak in the world, to interview internationally famous mountaineer Charles McVeigh on the last leg of a record-breaking series of summits. She's given up everything for this story--her boyfriend, her life savings, the peace she's made with her climbing failures in the past--but it's a career-making opportunity. It could finally put her life back on track....
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Global Search and Rescue volume 1
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English
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"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"--Provided by publisher.
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Without risk, say mountaineers, there would be none of the self-knowledge that comes from pushing life to its extremes. For them, perhaps, it is worth the cost. But, when tragedy strikes, what happens to the people left behind? Why would anyone choose to invest in a future with a high-altitude risk-taker? What is life like in the shadow of the mountain? Such questions have long been taboo in the world of mountaineering. Now, the spouses, parents and...
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Having had no chance to save his friend, Davidson had to save himself by climbing out of the crevasse, and the odds against him were long. Davidson was injured, exhausted, and probably in shock. He lacked both the requisite technical aid-climbing experience and most of the proper gear. But he drew strength from recollections of Joe Simpson's against-all-odds self-rescue in Touching the Void. After many hours of struggle, Davidson finally climbed back...
8) Mysterium
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English
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"The story of a dangerous expedition up Mount Sarasvati in India that tests all of the climb's members"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Mountains have a harsh climate that is a deadly challenge for even the hardiest of humans. This dramatically illustrated book presents true stories of survival in the extreme conditions of the peaks, including terrain, temperatures, and altitudes.
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David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format motion picture producer MacGillivray Freeman Films and comprised an international team of climbers. Their goal was to carry a specially modified forty-eight-pound IMAX motion picture camera to the summit...
11) The contest
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Everest volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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137 p. ; 20 cm.
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English
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Many people have tried to conquer Mt. Everest, but they've all been adults. Now a group of kids take on the challenge to become the youngest person to climb the deadly but intriguing mountain.
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Acclaimed Writing Team Pair Up Again for Gripping Historical Romance! Cassidy Ivanoff and her father, John, work at the new and prestigious Curry Hotel outside Mt. McKinley. While John will be expedition and wilderness exploration guide for the wealthy tourists, Cassidy has signed on as a cook's assistant. Both are busy as the hotel prepares to welcome the president of the United States on his way to drive in the golden spike to officially complete...
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Choose your own adventure volume 13
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1982
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116 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
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English
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The reader has his choice of 28 possible endings as he searches for the Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas.
19) The edge
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Peak volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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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.
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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...
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