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Climbing Mount Everest with Pete Athans
By Athans, Sandra K.
- ISBN
- 978-0-76136-650-8 978-1-46770-012-6
- Publisher
- Millbrook
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2012 | Nonfiction
Gr 5-7–Hundreds of feet taller than its competitor in the altitude stakes, Everest is the epitome of challenge in the climbing world. Here readers are invited to accompany Pete Athans (who has climbed on Everest some 14 times and stood on top of the world on 7 different occasions) on the arduous journey from below base camp to the summit. The matter-of-fact text is broken by tales of Athans's personal adventures–a rockfall on the West Ridge, a seracs crash in the Khumbu Icefall,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
