Summary: Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2015

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

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

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.522 KAS

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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

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

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

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

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

Summary: Two blind men and a man who is a double leg amputee, together with companies who create assistive techniques and technologies, climb a difficult eight pitch rock during the No Barriers Festival in the Dolomites in Cortina, Italy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Serac Adventure Films 2006

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

Summary: Sir Edmund Hillary was a bee-keeper, mountaineer, war veteran, explorer, philanthropist, husband, father, and the first person to ever reach the summit of Mount Everest. From his childhood in South Auckland, New Zealand, to the plane crash that killed his wife and daughter, the intriguing drama portrays the life, loves, and losses of one of the most famous explorers of all time.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2018

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIR