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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2015

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Jordan, Jennifer

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005

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Caesar, Ed

Summary: "In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: he will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit--all utterly alone. Wilson doesn't know how to climb. He barely knows how to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2020

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Dean, Patrick

Summary: "In 1913, four men made a months-long journey by dog sled to the base of the tallest mountain in North America. Several groups had already tried but failed to reach the top of a mountain whose size--occupying 120 square miles of the earth's surface --and position as the Earth's northernmost peak of more than 6,000 meters elevation make it one of the world's deadliest mountains. Although its...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021

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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?

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2021

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Ellsworth, Scott

Summary: "While tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was raging across the Himalayas. Contingents from Great Britain, Nazi Germany, and the United States had set up rival camps at the base of the mountains, all hoping to become recognized as the fastest, strongest, and bravest climbers in the world. Carried on across nearly the entire sweep of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: : Little, Brown and Company 2020

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Hemmleb, Jochen

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 1999

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Brennan, Kristine

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 2001

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Fleming, Fergus

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2000

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Roper, Robert

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002

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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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2013

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Davis, Wade.

Summary: Describes British climbers' attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s, discussing such topics as the role of imperial ambition in the expedition and the way in which the ascent reflected England's post-World War I redemption efforts.

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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Knopf 2011

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Kimberley, 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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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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Books 1999

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Messner, Reinhold

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mountaineers 1989

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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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Willis, Clint.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2006

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Zuckerman, Peter.

Summary: Presents the stories of the sherpas who have acted as expert consultants to Westerners climbing the Himalayas, focusing in particular on Chhiring Dorje Sherpa and Pasang Lama, who survived when eleven other climbers died on K2 in August 2008.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012

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Stoll, Steven

Summary: Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, from the earliest European settlers, through crucial episodes such as the Whiskey Rebellion and the founding of West Virginia, and the arrival of timber and coal companies that set off a devastating "scramble for Appalachia."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2017

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Ortner, Sherry B.

Summary: "Presents a compelling account of the evolving relationship between the mountaineers and the Sherpas, a relationship of mutual dependence and cultural conflict played out in an environment of mortal risk". -- Jacket.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 1999

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