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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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For famed cinematographer, adventurer, and mountaineer David Breashears, the terrifying experiences on Mount Everest during the deadly 1996 season became the defining moment of his life. By 1995, Breashears had already twice reached Mt. Everest's summit. Then he faced the greatest challenge of his life: to scale the 29,028-foot peak while hauling a giant IMAX camera to film the documentary Everest.
In this extraordinary memoir, Breashears takes...
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Publisher
FalconGuides
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)
Language
English
Description
"All rock climbing enthusiasts will want to get their hands on the 2013 edition of Layton Kor''s Beyond the Vertical. Now considered a collectors item among rock climbers, it is a chronicle of one of the most famous rock climbers in the world. Breathtaking full-color photographs accompany Kor''s page-turning climbing stories, and guest writers such as Royal Robbins, Fred Beckey, Steve Roper, and Chris Bonington, among others, bring together some of...
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Language
English
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"Fanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. With her frizzy brown hair tucked under a topee, Workman was a force on the mountain and off. Instrumental in breakingthe British stranglehold on Himalayan mountain climbing, this American woman climbed more peaks than any of her peers, became the first woman to map the far reaches of the Himalayas, the first woman...
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Language
English
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"You're either cruisin' or you're bummin', so you might as well cruise."--Scott Fischer Mountain climber Scott Fischer's mantra would lead him to scale the highest and most treacherous peaks on earth. Best known as one of the guides who perished near the summit of Mount Everest during the tragic spring of 1996, Scott Fischer became for many an iconic symbol of audacity, hubris, and the limits of human endurance. But to those who knew him well, Scott...
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Language
English
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"When Silvia's mother called her home to Peru, she knew something finally had to give. A Latinx 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...
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Publisher
Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
256 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Dierdre grew up under the watchful eyes of a domineering mother and realized early on that her parents' plans for her future weren't what she wanted for herself. Later, what seemed like a storybook romance brought escape, with new experiences and eye-opening travel, but she quickly discovered that her husband was not the happy-go-lucky man he had first appeared. Adapting as best she could, Dierdre juggled work and raising two young children, encouraging...
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Publisher
Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
206 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT)a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
355 pages, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The story of Jordan Romero, who at the age of 13 became the youngest person ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest. At age 15, he reached the summits of the world's 7 highest mountains"--
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Atria Paperback ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 354 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hiking into the remote Utah canyonlands, Aron Ralston felt perfectly at home in the beautiful natural world. Then, at 2:41 p.m., eight miles from his truck, in a deep and narrow slot canyon, an eight-hundred-pound boulder tumbled loose, pinning Aron's right hand and wrist against the canyon wall. Through six days of hell, with scant water, food, or warm clothing, and the terrible knowledge that no one knew where he was, Aron eliminated his escape...
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Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
xiii, 224 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
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.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
vii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts Alex Honnold's unprecedented solo climb of Yosemite's El Capitan, describing the feat along with the other climbing expeditions that populated his amateur and professional experiences.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
viii, 405 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"One slip, one false move, one missed toehold, and you're dead. Alex Honnold, the #1 free solo climber in the world, chose the route known as Freerider on Yosemite's El Capitan, a series of pitches so hard that it's newsworthy when someone free climbs it with a rope. No one had ever 'free soloed' it before; only a few people have ever even contemplated it. That four-hour climb on June 3, 2017, was, simply, one of the boldest feats in human history....
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A memoir by Vanessa O'Brien, record-breaking American-British explorer, takes you on an unexpected journey to the top of the world's highest mountains"--
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 248 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A thirty-year-old climbing phenomenon, Alex Honnold pushes the limits of free soloing beyond anything previously attempted, as he climbs without a rope, without a partner, and without any gear to attach himself to the wall. If he falls, he dies. In Alone on the Wall, Honnold recounts the seven most astonishing achievements thus far in his meteoric career, including free-soloing Sendero Luminoso in Mexico and climbing the Fitz Traverse in Patagonia....
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xii, 268 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In June 1992, best friends Jim Davidson and Mike Price stood triumphantly atop Washington's Mount Rainier, celebrating what they hoped would be the first of many milestones in their lives as passionate young mountaineers. Instead, their conquest gave way to catastrophe when a cave-in plunged them deep inside a glacial crevasse--the pitch-black, ice-walled hell that every climber's nightmares are made of. At once a heart-stopping adventure story,...
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