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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

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

Willis, Clint.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2006

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

Summary: As darkness fell on May 10, 1996, a fast moving storm of unimaginable ferocity trapped three climbing teams high on the slopes of Mount Everest. The climbers, exhausted from their summit climb, were soon lost in darkness, in a fierce blizzard, far from the safety of High Camp at 26,000 feet. World-renowned climber and filmmaker David Breashears, who aided the rescue efforts back in 1996, now...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2008

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STO

Medina, Nico

Summary: Introduces Mount Everest, the tallest peak in the world, describing its ancient beginnings, the first human settlers, and historic climbs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: 900 WHE

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.52 MED

Douglas, Ed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Constable 1998

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

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

Firstbrook, P. L.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: M&S 1999

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

Hemmleb, Jochen

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 1999

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

Messner, Reinhold

Format: text

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

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

Firstbrook, P. L. (Peter L.)

Summary: Mallory and Irvine died during their attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Many believed they had achieved it but had then perished during the descent. The debate had raged over 75 years. In May 1999, an expedition sponsored by the BBC set out to climb the North Face of the mountain as they pieced together the dramatic events of the tragedy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ISIS Large Print 2000

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 915.496 FIR

Kropp, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Books 1999

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

Summary: Follows a climbing expedition up Mount Everest, including a double-amputee and an asthmatic as climbers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EVE

Viesturs, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VIETURS, ED VIE

Webster, Ed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mountain Imagery 2000

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Gammelgaard, Lene

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 1999

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

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