Coburn, Broughton

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 796.522 COB

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

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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

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

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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: Villard 1997

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.5 KRA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.5 KRA

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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

Summary: Every year, Western mountain climbers make news ascending Mount Everest. The compelling stories of the Sherpas, the Nepalese guides who risk their lives to provide for their families, have remained a mystery, until now. This chronicles a fateful 2014 expedition and the tragic avalanche that spurred the Sherpas to make a stand for human rights and respect.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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