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Summary: The amount of oxygen available at the highest place on Earth is just under 7 percent. Explorers risk their lives and test their lungs traveling to these great heights atop mountains. Who are these adventurers and why do they do it?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2021
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Summary: A celebrated mountaineer and authorsearches for meaning in great adventuresand explorations, past and present. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBERTS, DAVID ROBHerman, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.54 HERMessner, Reinhold
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mountaineers 1989
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Summary: Chronicles the first American expedition to Mount Everest in May 1963, profiling the team of climbers while examining the impact the mission had on the American consciousness and sense of identity during the Cold War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 COBKimberley, Hannah
Summary: Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, swimmer, oarswoman, horsewoman, splendid conversationalist, and well-trained listener. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who never let gender stereotypes stand in her way. Peck gained fame as the third woman recorded in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PECK, ANNIE SMITH KIMKropp, Göran.
Summary: A personal account of one man's determination to climb Mount Everest alone describes how the Swedish climber accomplished his goal, within days of the 1995 tragedy that took the lives of a number of fellow climbers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 KROMuir, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.73 MUIObmascik, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 OBMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Stacks, Call number: 796.522 OBMViesturs, Ed
Summary: The only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world's eight-thousand-meter peaks sets his sights on Mount Everest, in a work that combines his own climbs as well as narratives of famous climbs throughout the last century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VIETURS, ED VIEWebster, Ed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountain Imagery 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 WEBHemmleb, Jochen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 HEMLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 LARFleming, Fergus
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.947 FLEJordan, Jennifer
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 JORKrakauer, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 KRARoper, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002