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- The escapist : cheating death on the world's highest mountains / by Filippi, Gabriel,author.; Popplewell, Brett,author.;
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- Subjects: Biographies.; Filippi, Gabriel.; Mountaineers; Mountaineering.; Mountaineering expeditions.; Mountaineering expeditions;
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- The family that conquered Everest / by Mallory, Alan,1984-;
In 2008 Alan Mallory and his family became the first family of four to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest peak.LSC- Subjects: Mallory, Alan, 1984-; Mallory, Alan, 1984-; Mallory, Alan, 1984-; Mountaineers; Success.;
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- The Third Pole : mystery, obsession, and death on Mount Everest / by Synnott, Mark,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Veteran climber Mark Synnott never planned on climbing Mount Everest, but a hundred-year mystery lured him into an expedition--and an awesome history of passionate adventure, chilling tragedy, and human aspiration unfolded"--- Subjects: Irvine, Andrew, 1902-1924.; Synnott, Mark.; Mount Everest Expedition (1924); Mountaineering expeditions; Mountaineering; Mountaineers; Mountaineers;
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- The moth and the mountain : a true story of love, war and Everest / by Caesar, Ed,author.;
From New Yorker writer Ed Caesar, 'The Moth and the Mountain' is a sweeping true story about one man's attempt to salve the wounds of war and save his own soul through an audacious adventure: flying his biplane five thousand miles across the world and attempting to become the first person to summit Mt. Everest.- Subjects: Biographies.; Wilson, Maurice, 1898-1934.; Mountaineers; Air pilots; Mountaineering;
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- Into the silence : the Great War, Mallory, and the conquest of Everest / by Davis, Wade.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Mallory, George, 1886-1924.; Mountaineering expeditions; Mountaineers; Soldiers; World War, 1914-1918;
- © c2011., Knopf Canada,
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- Everest : the remarkable story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay / by Stewart, Alexandra(Alex); Todd-Stanton, Joe.;
Includes bibliographical references."In the late morning of May 29, 1953, the sun was shining brightly and a gentle breeze was blowing on the highest elevation of the world--and two men were there to witness it for the first time ever. Their names were Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, and they had ascended Everest. This is the breathtaking story of how two very different, yet equally determined, men battled frost-biting temperatures, tumbling ice rocks, powerful winds, and death-defying ridges to reach the top of the world's highest mountain"--Provided by publisher.Ages 8-12.Grade 4 to 6.LSC- Subjects: Hillary, Edmund, 1919-2008; Tenzing Norkey, 1914-1986; Mountaineering expeditions; Mountaineers;
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- In the shadow of the mountain : a memoir of courage / by Vasquez-Lavado, Silvia,author.;
"When Silvia's mother called her home to Peru, she knew something finally had to give. A Latina hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. She was deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her family, and repressing the abuse she'd suffered as a child. Her visit to Peru would become a turning point in her life. Silvia started climbing. Something about the brute force required for the ascent-the restricted oxygen at altitude, the vast expanse of emptiness around her, the risk and spirit and sheer size of the mountains, the nearness of death-woke her up. And then, she took her biggest pain to the biggest mountain: Everest. "The Mother of the World," as it's known in Nepal, allows few to reach her summit, but Silvia didn't go alone. She gathered a group of young female survivors and led them to base camp alongside her, their strength and community propelling her forward. In the Shadow of the Mountain is a remarkable story of heroism, one which awakens in all of us a lust for adventure, gratitude for the strong women in our lives, and faith in our own resilience"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Vasquez-Lavado, Silvia.; Hispanic Americans; Mountaineers; Women in technology;
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- Enough : climbing toward a true self on Mount Everest / by Reid, Melissa Arnot,author.;
"A searching, uplifting memoir by the celebrated, groundbreaking climber: a journey of overcoming where the mountain's highest peaks can only be reached by traversing the dark crevasses of the soul"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Reid, Melissa Arnot.; Mountaineering; Mountaineers; Self-actualization (Psychology); Women mountaineers;
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- One wrong step / by Nielsen, Jennifer A.;
Twelve-year-old Atlas Wade has been climbing mountains for years, but after being forced to stay behind as his father joins a team of Mount Everest climbers, he sees an avalanche trapping his father's expedition, then--along with their Sherpa Chodak and an American girl, Maddie--Atlas begins a perilous journey to rescue the team.- Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Mountaineering; Search and rescue operations; Survival; Fathers and sons; Grief; Adventure and adventurers;
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- World's greatest natural icons. [videorecording] / by Bluett, Mike,television director.; Houston, Toni,screenwriter.; McAllum, Peter,1946-narrator.; Nine Network,production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.; Wildbear Entertainment,production company.;
Narrator, Peter McAllum.Our planet has been shaped by powerful elemental forces, of earth, fire, ice, water, and wind. Over millions of years, they have given rise to natural icons of immense grandeur and variety. Mount Everest, Jordan's Dead Sea, Rotorua's boiling mud pools, Indonesia's archipelago, Sossusvlei's dunes, the Northern Lights, the Rockies, the Amazon, Antarctica, and more. Throughout six episodes, we travel worldwide, exploring. The icons are as different as the forces that created them, from exploding volcanoes to phosphorescent reefs, from snaking rivers to infinite ice sheets, from burning deserts to abyssal fjords. In turn, these natural wonders shape the evolution of all life.E.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; 5.1 surround.- Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Travelogues (Television programs); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Auroras.; Earth sciences.; Geology.; Landforms.;
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