You wouldn't want to climb Mount Everest! : a deadly journey to the top of the world
(2010)
Nonfiction
Book
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J/796.522/GRAHAM,I
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PUBLISHED
New York : Franklin Watts, 2010
DESCRIPTION
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780531205051, 0531205053
LANGUAGE
English
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NOTES
Includes index
Mount Everest -- Into the death zone -- Picking the team -- Testing times -- Nepal -- Base camp -- Moving supplies -- The plan for the top -- The Mallory mystery -- The first attempt -- The backup plan -- On top of the world
Describes the realities and risks of attempting to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, from the perspective of a member of a team of British mountaineers in 1952
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