To the top of Everest
By: Laurie Skreslet, with Elizabeth MacLeod
Contributors: MacLeod, Elizabeth
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781550747218; 9781550748147
Subjects: Description and travel; Ouvrages pour la jeunesse; Biographies; Descriptions et voyages; Mountaineers; Mountaineering; Everest, Mount (China and Nepal); Alpinistes; Alpinisme; Juvenile literature; Biography
Description: The author, who became the 131st person to reach the peak of Mount Everest in 1982, recounts his experience, and explains how his achievement came with a heavy price as he and his expedition faced hidden crevasses, blinding snowstorms, horrible altitude sickness, and more. Skreslet shares details of the climb, which is illustrated with full-color photos.
Notes: Ages 10 and up.
Table of contents: title: Almost there; title: Growing up; title: Learning to climb; title: Mountain; title: Gear for the climb; title: Heading to Everest; title: Life at base camp; title: Who's who on the team; title: Climbing on icefall; title: Disaster strikes; title: Down the mountain; title: Back on Everest; title: Going it alone; title: Life on the mountain; title: Getting there; title: Weather closes in; title: We head for camp four; title: Early morning climb; title: Top of the world!; title: Dangerous descent; title: Heading home; title: After Everest; title: Glossary.