Conquering Mount Everest
By: by Jackie Glassman
Series: Navigators social studies -- Level S/44; Navigators social studies series -- Level 44 S.
Publisher: Benchmark Education Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Pelham, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781450907385
Subjects: Mountaineering; Juvenile literature; Mountaineering accidents; Search and rescue operations
Description: Mount Everest, the highest mountain peak in the world, is a cold and forbidding place where there's hardly enough air to breathe. Yet throughout history, people have tried to reach its summit. Some have succeeded, and some have not. Here is the story of a mountain that continues to be one of Earth's last frontiers.
Notes: "Scientific achievements"--Cover.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: On top of the world; title: Climbing Everest; title: The Sherpas; title: The early Everest explorers; title: Disaster strikes!; title: Everybody's Everest.