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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
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.
3) The summit
Author
Series
Everest volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
154 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Four kids are prepared to go into thin air in order to become the youngest person ever to climb Everest. But they are not prepared for the challenges that await them as they get closer to the summit. Supplies are low. Conditions are extreme. One of the kids is trying to sabotage the others. And then the storm hits ... "--p. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
During a Hindu festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, brothers Alu and Bhalu search for a dog they can honor with food and gratitude. Includes glossary of Nepali words and suggested activities.
5) Two Sherpas
Author
Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An Englishman has fallen from a ridge in Nepal. His guides kneel at the edge, exchanging the odd word, waiting for him to move. They must make a decision to descend. In those minutes, Two Sherpas expands dizzyingly to encompass Mount Everest's place in the imagination of imperialists, Nazis and others; ambition, exploration and exploitation; a mysterious encounter in a beach resort in a distant land; a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar,...
6) The contest
Author
Series
Everest volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
137 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A thrilling adventure trilogy from Gordon Korman that follows a group of young climbers to the top of Mt. Everest!
The height of competition.Who will be the youngest person ever to climb Mount Everest? It's the ultimate test of endurance and skill. The mountain has claimed the lives of many climbers.Now Summit Athletic, the sports drink and energy bar company, is sponsoring a reality contest-twenty of the county's youngest climbers competing for...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary each tell their story, culminating in their thrilling ascent of Mount Everest. Tenzing Norgay grew up in Nepal, herding yaks in the shadow of Chomolungma, the mountain also known as Everest. He has always dreamed of climbing to the top. He becomes a guide, leading treks through the Himalayas, and finally attempts the highest mountain himself, but doesn't make it. Across the ocean, in New Zealand, Edmund Hillary grew...
9) Sold
Author
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, though poor, enjoys her life until the Himalayan monsoons wash away her family's crops and she is sold to a brothel in India by her stepfather. She remembers her mother's wisdom, "Simply to endure is to triumph," until the day comes that she can reclaim her life.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, heart-wrenching debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibility toward one another. Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. But he missed the team by two-tenths of a second, and ever since that pain decades ago, he hasn't allowed a goal to consume him. But when his charming older brother, Nate, suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, Dixon can't refuse. The brothers are determined...
13) Exiles: a novel
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Moving to violence-stricken Kathmandu with his teenage daughter during an ugly divorce, American cardiologist Peter Scanlon volunteers at a sparsely equipped humanitarian medical clinic while his daughter flourishes in a new culture.
14) The guru of love
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ramchandra is a math teacher earning a low wage and living in a small apartment in Kathmandu with his wife and two children. Moonlighting as a tutor, he engages in an illicit affair with one of his tutees, Malati, a beautiful, impoverished young woman who is also a new mother."--Jacket.
15) Above all things
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
385 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the life and mysterious fate of George Mallory traces the experiences of his wife, Ruth, who in 1924 maintains a hopeful vigil in war-ravaged England during Mallory's fateful third expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Set in his signature and timeless Nepal, Samrat Updhyay has crafted a vivid portrait of a scorned woman's life-long obsession, and the ramifications on an impressionable young man. When Didi discovers that her husband, the Masterji, has been hiding his beautiful lover and their young son Tarun in a nearby city, she takes him back into her grasp and expels his second family. Tarun's mother, heartsick and devastated, slowly begins to lose her mind,...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 36
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The magic tree house has whisked Jack and Annie to the Himalayas in Nepal. They're searching for the mysterious Gray Ghost...Jack does not want to find a ghost. But he and Annie are excited about all the amazing animals they see. So excited, in fact, that Annie and Jack get lost in the mountains! Can they make their way to safety before the Gray Ghost finds them?"--
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. map ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chandra and her sister Deena see a demonstration of a "magic light," a solar-powered lantern, at a market near their home in Nepal and are determined to buy one, knowing it will help their little brother's cough to stop using kerosene lamps. Includes facts about Nepal.
Author
Series
Children of the lamp volume 3
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old djinn twins Philippa and John and their friend Dybbuk have further adventures as they travel the world in search of a priceless talisman.
20) Tintin au Tibet
Author
Series
Publisher
Casterman
Pub. Date
©1991
Physical Desc
62 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
Français
Description
Tintin searches the mountains of Nepal and Tibet for his friend, victim of an airplane crash.
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