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Dickmann, Nancy.

Summary: Introduces Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world; describes the first expedition to the top of the mountain completed by Edmund HIllary and Tenzing Norgay; and explains why climbing the mountain is so difficult.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Raintree 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.522 DIC

Ellsworth, Scott

Summary: "While tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was raging across the Himalayas. Contingents from Great Britain, Nazi Germany, and the United States had set up rival camps at the base of the mountains, all hoping to become recognized as the fastest, strongest, and bravest climbers in the world. Carried on across nearly the entire sweep of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: : Little, Brown and Company 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 ELL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Travel Ellsworth

Herman, Gail

Summary: Recounts the journey made by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey to the peak of Mount Everest, the highest location on Earth, highlighting how they used teamwork to make it to the top.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.54 HER

Storti, Craig

Summary: The height of Mt. Everest was first measured in 1850, but the closest any westerner got to Everest during the next 71 years, until 1921, was 40 miles. The Hunt for Mt. Everest tells the story of the 71-year quest to find the world's highest mountain. It's a tale of high drama, of larger-than-life characters-George Everest, Francis Younghusband, George Mallory, Lord Curzon, Edward Whymper-and a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, imprints of John Murray Press, an Hachette UK Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 STO

Caesar, Ed

Summary: "In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: he will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit--all utterly alone. Wilson doesn't know how to climb. He barely knows how to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 CAE

Ortner, Sherry B.

Summary: "Presents a compelling account of the evolving relationship between the mountaineers and the Sherpas, a relationship of mutual dependence and cultural conflict played out in an environment of mortal risk". -- Jacket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 ORT

Conefrey, Mick.

Summary: The first attempt on Everest in 1922 by George Leigh Mallory and a British team is an extraordinary story full of controversy, drama, and incident, populated by a set of larger-than-life characters straight out of an adventure novel. The expedition ended in tragedy when, on their third bid for the top, Mallory's party was hit by an avalanche that left seven men dead. Using diaries, letters, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 CON

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 CON

Rodriguez, Cindy

Summary: "On May 6, 1996, dozens of excited climbers set off to scale Mount Everest and to reach the tallest point on Earth. On the morning of May 10, the skies were clear. The summit was in sight. But hours later, a terrible storm hit. Eight climbers died as they became trapped near the peak. What went wrong, and how did the survivors manage to make it back alive? Told through the gripping, full-color...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Library is published by Capstone Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.522 ROD

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J796.522 ROD

Coburn, Broughton

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 1997

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 796.522 COB

Krishnaswami, Uma

Summary: "Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary each tell their story, culminating in their thrilling ascent of Mount Everest. Tenzing Norgay grew up in Nepal, herding yaks in the shadow of Chomolungma, the mountain also known as Everest. He has always dreamed of climbing to the top. He becomes a guide, leading treks through the Himalayas, and finally attempts the highest mountain himself, but doesn't make...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRI

Kasischke, Louis W.

Summary: Near the top of Mount Everest, on 10 May 1996, eight climbers died. It was the worst tragedy in the mountain's history. Lou Kasischke was there. Now he tells the harrowing story of what went wrong, as it has never been told before - including why the climbers were desperately late and out of time. His personal story, captured in the title AFTER THE WIND, tells about the intense moments near the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Good Hart Publishing 2014

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.522 KAS

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.54 KAS

Kamler, Kenneth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.52 KAM

Krakauer, Jon.

Summary: The author describes his spring 1996 trek to Mt. Everest, a disastrous expedition that claimed the lives of eight climbers, and explains why he survived.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1999

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 KRA

Summary: The gripping true-life adventure of six blind Tibetan teenagers on a climbing expedition up formidable Mount Everest.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BLI

London, Martha

Summary: "At the border of Nepal and Tibet, climbers try to reach the highest point above sea level. Mount Everest looks at when and how this mountain formed and what the future looks like for the popular climbing peak."--Amazon

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Core, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J910.202 LON

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