Books of Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)

  • The Ascent of Everest
    The Ascent of Everest
    By John Hunt Baron Hunt

    The weary little party plodded very slowly back to Camp V , leaving Bourdillon and Evans alone on the Lhotse Face . At Camp VI Evans and Bourdillon made a most valuable discovery . Four charged oxygen bottles , mentioned by the Swiss ...

  • Destination: Everest
    Destination: Everest
    By Karen Glenn

    Ever heard of Bo Collins ? He's taking a group in a few months . Narrator : I nearly choked . Climbing Everest had been my fantasy since I was ten years old . And as a guide , Collins was a legend . Josh : Climb Everest ?

  • The Conquest of Everest: Original Photographs from the Legendary First Ascent
    The Conquest of Everest: Original Photographs from the Legendary First Ascent
    By Huw Lewis-Jones, George Lowe

    Celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the first ascent to Mount Everest's peak, photographs from the climber's personal collection display the landscapes and difficulties faced by the team before finally reaching the summit.

  • The Will to Climb: The Boy Who Dared to Climb Mt Everest
    The Will to Climb: The Boy Who Dared to Climb Mt Everest
    By Richard Harris

    This is the true story of gripping life and death battles that took place on the 2006 Everest Expedition. Christopher Harris, at just eight-years-of-age, started mountaineering with his father Richard.

  • Everest: From the First Attempts to Today, 40 First-Hand Accounts
    Everest: From the First Attempts to Today, 40 First-Hand Accounts
    By Jon E. Lewis

    But this is much more than just the best of exhilarating first-hand accounts of climbing on Everest.

  • Using Math to Climb Mount Everest
    Using Math to Climb Mount Everest
    By Hilary Koll, Steve Mills, Russell Brice

    was developed in consultation with a math curriculum specialist . includes grade - appropriate problems that show how ... MATHWORKS ! series : Using Math in the ER Using Math to Create a MOVIE STUNT Using Math on a SPACE MISSION Using ...

  • Beyond the Summit
    Beyond the Summit
    By Linda J. LeBlanc

    The story includes an Everest expedition from a porter's point of view, Buddhist and animist rituals, Sherpa culture, Tibetan refugees, a love affair between an American journalist and Sherpa guide.

  • Sagarmatha
    Sagarmatha
    By Willy Vandersteen

    Sagarmatha

  • Mount Everest: Confessions of an Amateur Peak Bagger
    Mount Everest: Confessions of an Amateur Peak Bagger
    By Kevin D. Flynn

    If you've ever wondered what it would be like for a mere mortal to attempt Mt. Everest, this book is as close as it gets.

  • Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine
    Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine
    By P. L. Firstbrook

    Hillary and Sherpa Tensing Norgay became the first men to reach the summit of Everest.

  • Everest: The West Ridge
    Everest: The West Ridge
    By Thomas F. Hornbein

    Details the author and his partner Willi Unsoeld's ascent of Everest's West Ridge in 1963.

  • Peak
    By Roland Smith

    A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

  • The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest
    The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest
    By Mark Mackenzie

    Everest was, to George Mallory, 'the wildest dream'.

  • In the Footsteps of Mallory and Irvine: The Wildest Dream
    In the Footsteps of Mallory and Irvine: The Wildest Dream
    By Mark Mackenzie

    Everest was, to George Mallory, 'the wildest dream'.

  • Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mount Everest
    Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mount Everest
    By Bear Grylls

    Facing Up tells the remarkable story of Bear Grylls' ascent of Everest, making him, at the age of 23, the youngest British climber to survive the adventure.

  • High Adventure
    High Adventure
    By Edmund Hillary

    All courageous attempts by man to reach its summit by heading up the northern side from Tibet had failed. But in 1953 Edmund Hillary joined an expedition which found a new route up Everest. This is his account of the treacherous journey.

  • Everest: You Decide How to Survive!
    Everest: You Decide How to Survive!
    By Bill Doyle, David Borgenicht

    "First published in the United States in 2011 by Chronicle books LLC. A Quirk Packaging book"--Page facing title page.

  • Hillary and Norgay's Mount Everest Adventure
    Hillary and Norgay's Mount Everest Adventure
    By Jim Kerr

    Further Information Books Hillary , Edmund . High Adventure : The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest . New York : Oxford , 2003 . The 50th anniversary edition of the 1953 story , told by one of the men who reached the top .

  • The Struggle for Everest
    The Struggle for Everest
    By John Burnard West, George Ingle Finch, George W. Rodway

    He was President of the Alpine Club from 1959-61. This book presents an English translation of Finch's Der Kampf um den Everest.

  • Wildest Dream: George Mallory - The Biography of an Everest Hero
    By Peter Gillman, Leni Gillman

    Peter and Leni Gillman assess the motives and goals of this inspirational yet complex figure, whose life was dominated by his two conflicting passions: his love for his wife Ruth, and Everest - forbidding, unclimbed, 'the wildest dream', as ...