Climbing Mount Everest
By: Brigitte Muir
Contributors: National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Series: Windows on literacy. Social studies. Set B; Windows on literacy
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9780792248354
Subjects: Everest, Mount (China and Nepal); Juvenile literature; Mountaineering; Readers (Primary)
Description: Literacy focus: vocabulary, identifying prefixes and suffixes, using descriptive words, decoding compound words, following a sequence of events, distinguishing fact from opinion, making observations. Social studies focus: gives a first-person account of climbing the world's highest peak.
Notes: "Product #41831"--Page 3 of cover.

Includes index.

Grades Pre-K-3.

Reading level: Fluent plus, level 23.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: On our way to Mount Everest; title: Mount Everest base camp; title: Reaching Camp 1; title: Valley of Snow; title: Reaching the summit; title: Glossary; title: Index.