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Hommer, Ed.

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Summary: Ed Hommer discusses his life as an air pilot and mountaineer, how he and a fellow mountain climber survived for four nights with no supplies after their plane crashed on Mount McKinley, his recovery from the episode, life as an amputee, and recent climb of Mount McKinley.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Fountain, Henry

Summary: "In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological clues to explain the dynamics of earthquakes, who helped to confirm the then controversial theory of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.2 FOU

Southwell, Rex.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Word 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.465 SOU

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

Wejchert, Michael

Summary: "The story of a climbing adventure gone wrong in a remote Alaskan mountain range, the impossible rescue attempt that followed, and the fraught cost of survival"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2023

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

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: H.R. Page & Co. 1978

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Ref 977.464 Traverse

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.377464 TRA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: REF 977.464 TRA
1 available in Reference Office, Call number: REF 977.464 TRA

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

Triplett, Dawn.

Summary: "Brave boys were they! contains the biographies of over four hundred Civil War veterans who lived in Kalkaska County, Michigan. More than two hundred veterans are interred in Kalkaska County cemeteries, some in unmarked graves that are only now being marked with military headstones. The book chronicles the events and activities of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Women's Relief Corp that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dawn Triplett 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7474 TRI
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 977.465 TRI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 973.7479 TRI

Krakauer, Jon.

Summary: Krakauer provides a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster. The 1996 expedition he was reporting on and climbing with was engulfed by a storm. Five of his fellow climbers were dead and the sixth horribly frostbitten. By the time all expeditions had quit the mountains, twelve people had perished.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Pub. 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 796.522 Kra

Davidson, Jim

Summary: "A dramatic account of the deadly avalanche on Everest-and a return to reach the summit. On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed nearly 8,900 people....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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

Mavrikis, Peter

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?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 509 MAV

Young, Samuel Hall

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Peregrine Smith Books 1991

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.98 YOU

Dunham, Betty J. (Betty Jane)

Summary: History of Oliver Township, Kalkaska, Michigan including over 85 photographs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: B.J. Dunham 1985

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.37746 Dunham
Call number: R NEL 977.465 Dunham

Davidson, Jim.

Summary: Documents the 1992 mountaineering venture during which co-author Jim Davidson and his best friend, Mike Price, ascended Mount Rainier before a tragic fall that instantly ended Mike's life and forced Jim to climb to safety with sparse equipment.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011

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

Griswold, Mac K.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1999

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.41 GRI

Davidson, Jim.

Summary: Between a Rock and a Hard Place meets Into the Void in this harrowing account of a terrible mountaineering accident and one man's amazing escape from a hellish fall--a second-by-second retelling of tragedy, survival, and renewal.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 796.52 DAV

Coburn, Broughton

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Dickinson, Matt.

Summary: A killer storm with howling winds swept in and climbers were soon blinded in white-out conditions. Before it was over, the blizzard would claim a dozen lives, the worst loss of life in the modern history of climbing on Everest.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Anker, Conrad.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999

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

Messner, Reinhold

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Mountaineers 1989

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Paddock, Bonner.

Summary: In this exhilarating and inspirational memoir, the first man with cerebral palsy to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and complete the brutal Ironman competition shares the exhilarating adventure that led to his achievements--redefining our ideas of normal and proving that life is never truly limited for any of us.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PADDOCK, BONNER PAD

Rozell, Ned

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Duquesne University Press 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.98 ROZ

Hemmleb, Jochen

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Messner, Reinhold

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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