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Mountaineers Books
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English
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"In 2013, the first all-African American team of climbers, sponsored by the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), challenged themselves on North America's highest point, the dangerous and forbidding Denali, in Alaska. Mills uses Expedition Denali and its team members' adventures as a jumping-off point to explore how minority populations view their place in wild environments and to share the stories of those who have already achieved significant...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more—including Krakauer's—in guilt-ridden disarray.
"A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of heartbreaking heroism." —PEOPLE
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer...
"A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of heartbreaking heroism." —PEOPLE
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer...
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Global Search and Rescue volume 1
Language
English
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"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.
Alaska. Former pararescue jumper Orion Starr is haunted by the memory of a rescue gone wrong. He has no desire to join Hamilton Jones's elite rescue team, but he also can't shirk his duty when...
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English
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It's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine high on the shoulder of Mt. Everest. By the following year, three climbers -- a British poet and veteran of the Great War, a young French Chamonix guide, and an idealistic young American -- find a way to take their shot at the top. They arrange funding from the grieving Lady Bromley, whose...
9) The next Everest: surviving the mountain's deadliest day and finding the resilience to climb again
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A dramatic account of the deadly avalanche on Everest -- and a return to reach the summit. On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed nearly 8,900 people. That day also became the deadliest in the history of...
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Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"The story of a climbing adventure gone wrong in a remote Alaskan mountain range, the impossible rescue attempt that followed, and the fraught cost of survival"--
"In 2018, two couples set out on an expedition to Alaska's Hidden Mountains, one of the last wild ranges in North America. A rarity in modern climbing, the peaks were nearly unexplored and untouched, a place where few people had ever visited and granite spires still awaited first ascents....
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the conditions and terrain of Mount Everest, attempts that have been made to scale this peak, and general information about the equipment and techniques of mountain climbing.
15) Mysterium
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The story of a dangerous expedition up Mount Sarasvati in India that tests all of the climb's members"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
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
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Bérénice tiene miedo de los hombres, Stéphane quiere dejar de fumar, Fabrice lucha contra su timidez, Isabelle es hipocondríaca y Audrey es una madre al borde de un ataque de nervios, así que todos se apuntan voluntariamente (o casi) a una terapia excursionista con la esperanza de cambiar su actitud y sus malos hábitos en las alturas de una montaña. En pleno corazón de Italia, estas cinco personas, ligeramente perdidas en la vida, se disponen...
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