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Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Pub. Date
20130430.
Language
English
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By the author of the "New York Times"-bestselling "Everest: Mountain Without Mercy," this chronicle of the iconic first American expedition to Mt. Everest in May 1963--published to coincide with the climb's 50th anniversary--combines riveting adventure, a perceptive analysis of history, and revelations about a secret mission that followed.
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A journey of adventure, tragedy, love, and loss on the summit of Mt. Hood.
In December 2006, millions of people across the world prayed and waited in anguish to learn the fate of 3 climbers trapped on Mt. Hood. The worst storm in the last decade was pounding the mountain with hurricane-force winds that would not permit the army of rescue workers to do their work. No one below could forget the last phone call Kelly James placed to his wife, telling...
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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The Naked Mountaineer recounts a series of solo journeys to some of the world's most exotic peaks in places such as Switzerland, Japan, and Borneo. However, it is far from the typical heroic mountain-expedition book. Although Steve Sieberson did reach many summits, in most cases his travels were more memorable for what he encountered along the way than for the actual climbing. His real adventures involved peculiar people, strange foods, and tropical...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Slakey takes readers on a physical and spiritual journey to the most extreme points on Earth and deep inside the human psyche. A gripping adventure of the body and mind that led Slakey around the globe, challenged his fiercely held beliefs, and opened his heart.
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English
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Already awarded a prize by the Biographer's Club, Harriet Tuckey's book is both the history of what went into the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 and a biography of her father, Dr Griffith Pugh, whose role was absolutely pivotal, yet mostly untold. As the expedition's physiological consultant, Pugh designed almost every aspect of the survival strategy for the expedition, the acclimatization program, the oxygen- and fluid-intake regime,...
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"Mr. Tate's class is about to learn there's more to rocks than being dirty lumps on the ground. On this field trip they're visiting the rocky ridge mountains to learn about rocks. At first the children think rocks will be boring, but they soon learn that rocks are all around us in ways we might not expect--such as glass and toothpaste"--
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English
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In a small fictional town on the Oregon coast there are love affairs and almost-love-affairs, mystery and hilarity, bears and tears, brawls and boats, a garrulous logger and a silent doctor, rain and pain, Irish immigrants and Salish stories, mud and laughter. There's a Department of Public Works that gives haircuts and counts insects, a policeman who is addicted to Puccini, a philosophizing crow, beer, and berries. An expedition is mounted, a crime...
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Boxcar children volume 9
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English
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When the Alden children climb to the top of Old Flat Top Mountain, they encounter a mysterious mountain cave, a perilous rockslide, and a secret treasure.
13) The edge
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Peak volume 2
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English
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It was supposed to be a peace climb. That's what it was called when Peak Marcello was recruited to be part of a climbing team in Afghanistan. And it was supposed to be safe: far away from any fighting, with a private security force watching the climbers' backs. But just as the climb is getting started, the group is attached. Peak and afew others are left behind, but most of the climbers are taken -- kidnapped -- including Peak's mom. Now Peak's on...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In The Mountain, veteran world-class climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs-the only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world's 8,000-meter peaks-trains his sights on Mount Everest in richly detailed accounts of expeditions that are by turns personal, harrowing, deadly, and inspiring. The highest mountain on earth, Everest remains the ultimate goal for serious high-altitude climbers. Viesturs has gone on eleven expeditions to Everest,...
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