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Mount Everest

Product Description: This title teaches readers about the first brave, but sometimes ill-informed, explorers who ventured onto the icy peaks of Mount Everest. Read all about the mountain, it's history and some of the most bizarre tales of its exploration.

By Nancy Dickmann

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9781410947901 | Raintree Pub, August 1, 2012, cover price $8.29 | About this edition: This title teaches readers about the first brave, but sometimes ill-informed, explorers who ventured onto the icy peaks of Mount Everest.

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9781410947833 | Raintree Pub, August 1, 2012, cover price $29.32 | About this edition: This title teaches readers about the first brave, but sometimes ill-informed, explorers who ventured onto the icy peaks of Mount Everest.

To the Top of Mount Everest

By Valerie Bodden

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9780898126686 | Creative Paperbacks Inc, February 1, 2012, cover price $12.00

To the Top of Mount Everest: Hilary and Norgay

Product Description: A history of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's 1953 summit of Mt. Everest, detailing the challenges encountered, the individuals involved, the discoveries made, and how the expedition left its mark upon the world.

By Valerie Bodden

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9781608180707 | Creative Educ, July 1, 2011, cover price $38.50 | About this edition: A history of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's 1953 summit of Mt.

Everest and Conquest in the Himalaya: Science and Courage on the World's Highest Mountain

Product Description: A century ago the summits of the worldâs highest peaks, Everest included, were beyond reach. Pioneering attempts to overcome the dangers of climbing at extremely high altitudes ended in failure, sometimes with disastrous consequences...read more

By George Rodway

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9781848841390 | Pen & Sword, June 19, 2011, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A century ago the summits of the worldâs highest peaks, Everest included, were beyond reach.

To the Top!: Climbing the World's Highest Mountain

Describes how Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey became the first human beings to reach the top of the world by climbing Mount Everest.

By Sydelle Kramer and Tom Lapadula (illustrator)

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9780375824593, titled "To the Top: Climbing the World's Highest Mountain" | Random House Childrens Books, June 1, 2003, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: Describes how Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey became the first human beings to reach the top of the world by climbing Mount Everest.

9780679838852 | Random House Childrens Books, March 1, 1993, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Describes how Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first human beings to reach the top of the world by climbing Mount Everest

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9780375924590, titled "To the Top: Climbing the World's Highest Mountain" | Random House Childrens Books, June 1, 2003, cover price $16.01 | About this edition: Describes how Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey became the first human beings to reach the top of the world by climbing Mount Everest.

9780679938859 | Random House Childrens Books, March 1, 1993, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Describes how Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first human beings to reach the top of the world by climbing Mount Everest

The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Everest

Published in conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of the first ascent up the worlds tallest peak, this nail-biting collection of climbing stories corrals thirty of the most exciting tales of trekking up Everest, by Mallory, Sir Edmund Hillary, Jon Krakauer, Bill Tilman, and other notable climbers. (view table of contents)

By Jon E. Lewis (editor)

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9780786711710, titled "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Everest: Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Ascent of Everest, 32 Firsthand Accounts of the Most Memorable Climbs" | Running Pr Book Pub, April 15, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Offers thirty-two firsthand accounts of the experience of climbing Everest from contributors including George Mallory, Tenzing Norgay, Reinhold Messner, and Maria Coffey.

Tenzing Norgay and the Sherpas of Everest

Product Description: In 1953, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary b ecame the f irst climbers to summit Mt. Everest, the defining moment of 20thcentury exploration. Although honored worldwide, Tenzing could never harness the changes his passion for climbing brought to his Sherpa people, and he died a forgotten man...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Tashi Tenzing

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9780071381802 | McGraw-Hill, October 1, 2001, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Describes some of the most famous climbs of Mount Everest focusing on the career of Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa, who made the first successful ascent of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953, and looks at Sherpa society and history.

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9780071413091, titled "Tenzing Norgay & the Sherpas of Everest" | Ragged Mountain Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In 1953, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary b ecame the f irst climbers to summit Mt.

Everest: Eighty Years of Triumph and Tragedy

Collects stories and photographs the mountain has inspired since the first attempt was made to reach the summit in 1921.

By Leni Gillman (editor) and Peter Gillman (editor)

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9780898867800 | 2 revised edition (Mountaineers Books, May 1, 2001), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Collects stories and photographs the mountain has inspired since the first attempt was made to reach the summit in 1921.

Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering

Focusing on the relationship between white European and American climbers and their Sherpa guides on Everest climbs throughout this century, the author explores the cultural divides and mutual dependencies that inform these relationships. (view table of contents)

By Sherry B. Ortner

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9780691006895 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Focusing on the relationship between white European and American climbers and their Sherpa guides on Everest climbs throughout this century, the author explores the cultural divides and mutual dependencies that inform these relationships.

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9780691074481 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 12, 2001, cover price $38.95

Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine

Recounts the adventures of two British mountainers who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924, and describes attempts to determine if they reached the summit before the first climbers known to have done so.

By P. L. Firstbrook

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9780809298921 | Contemporary Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Recounts the adventures of two British mountainers who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924, and describes attempts to determine if they reached the summit before the first climbers known to have done so.

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9780809297368 | Contemporary Books, October 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Recounts the adventures of two British mountainers who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924, and describes attempts to determine if they reached the summit before the first climbers known to have done so.

Climbing Everest: A Meditation on Mountaineering and the Spirit of Adventure

Product Description: This vividly imagined reflection on climbing provides an entirely new perspective on mountaineering. "It is not with skill that I wish to climb Everest," writes master climber, author, and poet Pat Ament. "I wish to climb it with curiosity and appreciation, with an artist's love ...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Pat Ament

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9780071364454 | McGraw-Hill, September 1, 2000, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This vividly imagined reflection on climbing provides an entirely new perspective on mountaineering.

Everest: The Mountaineering History

By Walt Unsworth

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9781898573401 | 3 edition (Baton Wicks Pubns Tld, April 17, 2000), cover price $43.25

9780898866704 | 3 edition (Mountaineers Books, January 1, 2000), cover price $45.00

To the Top: Climbing the World's Highest Mountain

Describes how Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first human beings to reach the top of the world by climbing Mount Everest

By Sydelle Kramer

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9780785708933 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $13.55 | About this edition: Describes how Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first human beings to reach the top of the world by climbing Mount Everest

Everest: The Struggle to Reach the Top of the World

The story of Mount Everest, the legendary Himalayan mountain, and the people who have explored and climbed it includes profiles of some of the more than seven hundred people who have conquered the peak since 1953. (view table of contents)

By Geoff Tibballs

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9781858686042 | Carlton Books Ltd, June 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The story of Mount Everest, the legendary Himalayan mountain, and the people who have explored and climbed it, includes profiles of some of the more than seven hundred people who have conquered the peak since 1953

Everest: The Best Writing and Pictures from Seventy Years of Human Endeavour

A celebration in words and pictures of Mount Everest collects all of the stories and photographs the mountain has inspired since the first attempt was made to reach its summit in 1921.

By Peter Gillman (editor)

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9780316904896 | Little Brown & Co, November 1, 1993, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Collects stories and photographs the mountain has inspired since the first attempt was made to reach its summit in 1921

The Ascent of Everest

Product Description: Expedition leader John Hunt's account of the first ascent of Mount Everest's summit in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.

By John Hunt

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9780898863611 | Reprint edition (Mountaineers Books, July 1, 1993), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Expedition leader John Hunt's account of the first ascent of Mount Everest's summit in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.

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