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1) Peak
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
427 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kamzin has always dreamed of becoming one of the Emperor's royal explorers, the elite climbers tasked with mapping the wintry, mountainous Empire and spying on its enemies. She knows she could be the best in the world, if only someone would give her a chance.
6) The wall
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times Bestselling Author of The ReckoningOn the vast, sunlit walls of the world's greatest monolith, two veteran climbers unwittingly ascend into a vertical underworld. In a place where obsession kills, they quickly fall prey to past loves, old demons, and ghostly revenge. Hugh and Lewis were Yosemite legends. El Capitan was their holy grail, and their destiny seemed written on its big walls. Here they met the women who married,...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
484 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After eight successful summits, Mount Everest guide Neil Quinn is confident he can handle anything the mountain throws his way. But then disaster strikes steps from the top, leaving him with a lot of questions and a very old swastika-embellished ice axe that should never have been so high on the mountain--not if Everest's meticulously documented history is accurate"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
One man's quiet life is shattered when he's forced to confront terrifying secrets he'd thought buried high in the Italian Alps
The New York Times has called his work "daring and remarkably assured," The Washington Post has dubbed it "shamelessly entertaining," and the Los Angeles Times claims it renders "the raw elegence of the human experience itself." Now Paul Watkins returns with his most engaging and atmospheric novel yet. The ice soldier of...
12) Seventeen
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 352 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen years after an air disaster of unprecedented scale occured near his newspaper office, reporter Kazumasa Yuuki makes good on a promise he made during that supercharged week and solves a mystery.
13) Ascent
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains in the world, but getting there involves a four-week trek through a tropical rainforest that is rife with hazards, which turns out to be more dangerous than summiting the mountain itself.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1905, eight-year-old Harriet Peters fulfills her dead mother's dream by climbing Long's Peak in Colorado with the help of an old mountain guide, Enos Mills. Based on a true story.
16) The white road
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Desperate to attract subscribers to his fledgling website, ex-adrenaline junkie Simon Newman undertakes two life-risking ventures, one in the notorious Cwm Pot caves and another scaling Everest, that force him to test the limits of his morality and wits in order to survive.
17) The edge
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Global search and rescue volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Jenny Calhoun climbs mountains to forget what she's done, who she was. But this time, when an excursion up Denali turns deadly, she is forced to accept the help of the one man she hoped she'd never see again--the man she nearly killed"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Anna and Finn look over the wall that surrounds their tiny village and discover a mountain, which the villagers warn cannot be climbed, but the siblings are determined to reach the top.
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