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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Mountaineer and filmmaker David Breashears shares the story of his life, discussing his adventures climbing some of the world's greatest peaks, and explaining the factors that drive him to pursue such a dangerous profession.
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Alice Loudon leads a charmed life, she has a wonderful boyfriend, an important job, and lots of friends, but when she meets Adam Tallis, she gives everything up for him, and by the time she realizes he is hiding a deadly secret, it is almost too late to save herself.
7) The last of his kind: the life and adventures of Bradford Washburn, America's boldest mountaineer
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
Legendary climber Scott Fischer found in Mount Everest a perfect landscape for his fearless spirit. Scaling the world's highest peak tested his skills, his courage, and his endurance. His legendary final expedition-and its tragic outcome-are portrayed in Everest, the 3-D movie adaptation starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Scott Fischer. Robert Birkby, one of Scott's close friends, captures in this intimate and stirring portrait who Scott Fischer really was...
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Experience the world's highest peak as it's never been before in this harrowing trek to touch the roof of the world. With unusually severe weather and heartbreaking circumstances, this expedition becomes fraught with unexpected perils.
11) Free solo
Publisher
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Despite attempts by his friends, loved ones and his new girlfriend to dissuade him from this dangerous feat, Alex Honnold, the worlds most accomplished free soloist climber, prepares mentally and physically for his most daring adventure to date: scaling the 3200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite without a rope or safety gear. If he succeeds, it will mark the largest wall he, or anyone else, for that matter, has ascended without any kind of equipment.
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Lincoln Hall describes his experiences after deciding to pursue a long-delayed dream to climb Mt. Everest in the spring of 2006, telling how he was declared dead and left behind after he collapsed from altitude sickness and Sherpas were unable to revive him, and discussing his miraculous rescue by an American guide the following day who discovered him sitting on the summit ridge, frostbitten, confused, but still alive.
13) Paths of glory
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Language
English
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Description
This real-life mountaineering mystery recounts the story of Britain's George Mallory and his attempt to scale Mt. Everest.
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Series
Publisher
Timbuktu Labs, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Junko is bad at athletics. Really bad. Other students laugh because they think she is small and weak. Then her teacher takes the class on a trip to a mountain. It's bigger than any Junko's ever seen, but she is determined to make it to the top. Ganbatte, her teacher tells her. Do your best. After that first trip, Junko becomes a mountaineer in body and spirit. She climbs snowy mountains, rocky mountains, and even faraway mountains outside of her...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
One of the best mountaineers of our generation finally reveals the details of his many exciting extreme alpine ascents-ascents in which his only equipment is a pair of shoes and a small bag for holding chalk. Clinging to the crevasses in mountain walls, with muscles bulging as he makes his free ascent, Huber has become one of the world's most recognized and photographed extreme alpine climbers. Along with many other legendary ascents detailed here,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The author describes how he spent his teenage years climbing mountains in the United States, South America, Africa, and Asia, with an emphasis on his two expeditions up Mount Everest.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The author describes the life and fate of Dudley Wolfe, a man of wealth who joined a team of men to be the first to climb K2--the world's second-highest mountain--and examines what could have happened after he was abandoned by his teammates in Camp VII.
Author
Language
English
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Description
The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer's harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and camaraderie are explored in this electronic edition...
20) Wild Cat Cait
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Cait Perry has learned the hard way not to trust any man, so she's secluded herself in a cabin in the wild Montana mountains, with only her cats" for company. But at times the curvaceous mountain woman longs for something -- and someone -- more than this lonely life she's built for herself. Then one day ruggedly handsome Ethan Sawyer walks into her secluded sanctuary, determined to capture a wild cougar that is threatening the nearby town. Although...
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