The Breathtaking Mystery on Mt. Everest (The Top of the World)
The Breathtaking Mystery on Mt. Everest (The Top of the World)

Author: Carole Marsh

Publisher: Gallopade International

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 0635080214

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Join Grant and Christina on a journey to the top of the world - Mount Everest! Along with their two Sherpa friends, they try to help Uncle Mike and his friend reach the summit. But someone else is trying to make sure they don't! Can they make it past scary statues, mysterious monks, rickety bridges, and a deadly avalanche? Can the handle the b-b-breathtaking c-c-cold? Will a not-so-yackety yak lend a hand (or a hoof)? Oh no! Is that the Abominable Snowman roaring in the distance? Let's start climbing - do you have the courage to come along? Read this mystery - it will take your breath away!æ Here are some of the integral places in this mystery: Tribhuvan International Airport, Nepal - Mt. Everest/Sagarmatha/Chomolungma - Everest View Hotel - Tengboche Monastery - Base Camp on the moraine - Khumbu Glacier - Khumbu Icefall - Himalayan Mountains. Here are some of the integral educational items in this mystery: Sherpas _ History -Traditions and Foods - Sherpa Tea with Salt and Yak Butter - Tsampa - Breakfast food - Shakpa - Thick Potato Soup - Heating with Yak Dung - Prayer Flags - Angees and chubas - Traditional dress - Legend: -Abode of the Gods -Yeti (or The Abominable Snowman) - Modern Technology incorporated into the Sherpa lifestyle _ Yaks -Mani Stones -Climbing Gear - Crampons - Compass - Oxygen Tanks - Climbing Harness - GPS -Satellite Phones - Snow glasses - Ice Axes -Nepal - Size - Geography - History - Economy - Rupees - Religions - Hindu - Buddhism - Architecture - Swayambhunath or "The Monkey Temple" - Music and Art - Sarangi - musical instrument played frequently in Nepal - Kalbhairav - A statue to whom people make promises. Each mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that keep kids begging for more! Each mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities. Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this book: Grade Levels: 3-6 Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.5 Accelerated Reader Points: 2 Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 133397 Lexile Measure: 700 Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: Q Developmental Assessment Level: 40

The Third Pole
The Third Pole

Author: Mark Synnott

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 152474557X

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***NPR Books We Love selection*** “If you’re only going to read one Everest book this decade, make it The Third Pole. . . . A riveting adventure.”—Outside Shivering, exhausted, gasping for oxygen, beyond doubt . . . A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as “the Year Everest Broke.” What he found was a gripping human story of impassioned characters from around the globe and a mountain that will consume your soul—and your life—if you let it. The mystery? On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine set out to stand on the roof of the world, where no one had stood before. They were last seen eight hundred feet shy of Everest’s summit still “going strong” for the top. Could they have succeeded decades before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? Irvine is believed to have carried a Kodak camera with him to record their attempt, but it, along with his body, had never been found. Did the frozen film in that camera have a photograph of Mallory and Irvine on the summit before they disappeared into the clouds, never to be seen again? Kodak says the film might still be viable. . . . Mark Synnott made his own ascent up the infamous North Face along with his friend Renan Ozturk, a filmmaker using drones higher than any had previously flown. Readers witness first-hand how Synnott’s quest led him from oxygen-deprivation training to archives and museums in England, to Kathmandu, the Tibetan high plateau, and up the North Face into a massive storm. The infamous traffic jams of climbers at the very summit immediately resulted in tragic deaths. Sherpas revolted. Chinese officials turned on Synnott’s team. An Indian woman miraculously crawled her way to frostbitten survival. Synnott himself went off the safety rope—one slip and no one would have been able to save him—committed to solving the mystery. Eleven climbers died on Everest that season, all of them mesmerized by an irresistible magic. The Third Pole is a rapidly accelerating ride to the limitless joy and horror of human obsession.

The Call of Everest
The Call of Everest

Author: Conrad Anker

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1426210167

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Presents a historical survey of the world's tallest mountain, featuring accounts of famous climbs and tragedies, previously unpublished photographs, and scientific findings on the impact of climate change.

Everest
Everest

Author: Broughton Coburn

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1426215851

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A filmmaker and veteran climber, David Breashears led the May 1996 expedition that captured Everest in a large-format IMAX motion picture. "Everest" is the breathtaking chronicle of a filmmaking expedition turned rescue mission. 125 stunning, full-color images, including IMAX frames from the film.

The Breathtaking Mystery on Mt. Everest (The Top of the World)
The Breathtaking Mystery on Mt. Everest (The Top of the World)

Author: Carole Marsh

Publisher: Gallopade International

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 063507348X

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Join Grant and Christina on a journey to the top of the world - Mount Everest! Along with their two Sherpa friends, they try to help Uncle Mike and his friend reach the summit. But someone else is trying to make sure they don't! Can they make it past scary statues, mysterious monks, rickety bridges, and a deadly avalanche? Can the handle the b-b-breathtaking c-c-cold? Will a not-so-yackety yak lend a hand (or a hoof)? Oh no! Is that the Abominable Snowman roaring in the distance? Let's start climbing - do you have the courage to come along? Read this mystery - it will take your breath away!æ Here are some of the integral places in this mystery: Tribhuvan International Airport, Nepal - Mt. Everest/Sagarmatha/Chomolungma - Everest View Hotel - Tengboche Monastery - Base Camp on the moraine - Khumbu Glacier - Khumbu Icefall - Himalayan Mountains. Here are some of the integral educational items in this mystery: Sherpas _ History -Traditions and Foods - Sherpa Tea with Salt and Yak Butter - Tsampa - Breakfast food - Shakpa - Thick Potato Soup - Heating with Yak Dung - Prayer Flags - Angees and chubas - Traditional dress - Legend: -Abode of the Gods -Yeti (or The Abominable Snowman) - Modern Technology incorporated into the Sherpa lifestyle _ Yaks -Mani Stones -Climbing Gear - Crampons - Compass - Oxygen Tanks - Climbing Harness - GPS -Satellite Phones - Snow glasses - Ice Axes -Nepal - Size - Geography - History - Economy - Rupees - Religions - Hindu - Buddhism - Architecture - Swayambhunath or "The Monkey Temple" - Music and Art - Sarangi - musical instrument played frequently in Nepal - Kalbhairav - A statue to whom people make promises. Each mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that keep kids begging for more! Each mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities.æ Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this book: Grade Levels: 3-6 Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.5 Accelerated Reader Points: 2 Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 133397 Lexile Measure: 700 Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: Q Developmental Assessment Level: 40

Mystery on Everest
Mystery on Everest

Author: Audrey Salkeld

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780439261678

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Discusses the life of British mountain climber, George Mallory, the discovery of his body seventy-five years after his death, and the debate over whether Mallory was the first person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

Into the Silence
Into the Silence

Author: Wade Davis

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-10-18

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 0307700569

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The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a twenty-two-year-old Oxford scholar with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. Drawing on more than a decade of prodigious research, bestselling author and explorer Wade Davis vividly re-creates the heroic efforts of Mallory and his fellow climbers, setting their significant achievements in sweeping historical context: from Britain’s nineteen-century imperial ambitions to the war that shaped Mallory’s generation. Theirs was a country broken, and the Everest expeditions emerged as a powerful symbol of national redemption and hope. In Davis’s rich exploration, he creates a timeless portrait of these remarkable men and their extraordinary times.

Left for Dead
Left for Dead

Author: Beck Weathers

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2000-09-21

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0375505881

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With a new preface by the author • As featured in the upcoming motion picture Everest, starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, and Jake Gyllenhaal “I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last moment and then guided me, blind and stumbling—quite literally a dead man walking—into camp and the shaky start of my return to life.” In 1996 Beck Weathers and a climbing team pushed toward the summit of Mount Everest. Then a storm exploded on the mountain, ripping the team to shreds, forcing brave men to scratch and crawl for their lives. Rescuers who reached Weathers saw that he was dying, and left him. Twelve hours later, the inexplicable occurred. Weathers appeared, blinded, gloveless, and caked with ice—walking down the mountain. In this powerful memoir, now featuring a new Preface, Weathers describes not only his escape from hypothermia and the murderous storm that killed eight climbers, but the journey of his life. This is the story of a man’s route to a dangerous sport and a fateful expedition, as well as the road of recovery he has traveled since; of survival in the face of certain death, the reclaiming of a family and a life; and of the most extraordinary adventure of all: finding the courage to say yes when life offers us a second chance. Praise for Left for Dead “Riveting . . . [a] remarkable survival story . . . Left for Dead takes a long, critical look at climbing: Weathers is particularly candid about how the demanding sport altered and strained his relationships.”—USA Today “Ultimately, this engrossing tale depicts the difficulty of a man’s struggle to reform his life.”—Publishers Weekly