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Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) Description and travel Honnold, Alex Mountaineering Mountaineering Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) Mountaineering India Nanda Devi Mountaineers Mountaineers United States Biography Nanda Devi (India) Description and travel United States Women mountaineers United States BiographyHill, Lynn
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 HILHowkins, Heidi.
Summary: The tales of a single mother who has climbed K2, just a little lower than Everest, but "steeper, tougher, and deadlier."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adventure Press/National Geographic 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 HAWSynnott, Hampton
Summary: Recounts Alex Honnold's unprecedented solo climb of Yosemite's El Capitan, describing the feat along with the other climbing expeditions that populated his amateur and professional experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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Summary: An honest, uplifting memoir of overcoming addiction, and finding direction, through climbing When Brendan Leonard finished substance abuse treatment at age 23, he was lost. He knew what not to do- not drink alcohol and not get arrested again. But no one had told him what it was that he could do. He quickly realized that he had to reinvent himself, to find something other than alcohol and its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEONARD, BRENDAN LEORoberts, David
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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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 796.52 DAVSummary: "Hailed as one of the most prolific and influential climbers of all time, Fred Beckey has become a cult hero in the outdoor world. Eschewing fame, sponsors and family life so his only obligation would be the next summit, this rebel athlete conquered more unclimbed peaks than anyone in history during his 80-year career, staying myopically focused on the mountains until age 94...."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIRRidgeway, Rick
Summary: At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild, Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he's spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: "And most of that in small tents pitched in the world's most remote regions." It's not a boast so much as an explanation. Whether at elevation or raising a family back at sea level, those...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Patagonia 2021
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.52 DAVO'Brien, Vanessa
Summary: "A memoir by Vanessa O'Brien, record-breaking American-British explorer, takes you on an unexpected journey to the top of the world's highest mountains"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'BRIEN, VANESSA O'BRVasquez-Lavado, Silvia
Summary: "When Silvia's mother called her home to Peru, she knew something finally had to give. A Latinx hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. She was deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her family, and repressing the abuse she'd suffered as a child. Her visit to Peru would become a turning point in her life. Silvia started...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VASQUEZ-IAVADO, SILVIA VASHommer, Ed.
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 HOMRomero, Jordan
Summary: "The story of Jordan Romero, who at the age of 13 became the youngest person ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest. At age 15, he reached the summits of the world's 7 highest mountains"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ROMCoburn, 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.
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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 KIMSummary: Despite attempts by his friends, loved ones and his new girlfriend to dissuade him from this dangerous feat, Alex Honnold, the worlds most accomplished free soloist climber, prepares mentally and physically for his most daring adventure to date: scaling the 3200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite without a rope or safety gear. If he succeeds, it will mark the largest wall he, or anyone else, for that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRERoper, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 ROPRoskelley, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 ROSViesturs, 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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Summary: Erik Weihenmayer, born with a degenerative eye disorder called retinoscheses, tells his life story--from his unique childhood to his climbs of four of the world's Seven Summits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 WEIHonnold, Alex
Summary: Only a few years ago, Alex Honnold was little known beyond a small circle of hardcore climbers. Today, at the age of thirty, he is probably the most famous adventure athlete in the world. In that short time, he has proven his expertise in many styles of climbing and has shattered speed records, pioneered routes, and won awards within each discipline. More spectacularly still, he has pushed the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016
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Ralston, Aron.
Summary: One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2004