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A classic guidebook known for its accuracy and comprehensiveness, Colorado's Fourteeners has been completely updated to include new routes, detailed specs on each mountain and climb, GPS coordinates, valuable information on trail access, and Gerry's new rating system, Roach Points. In addition to often-climbed standard routes, Gerry details many alternative and technical routes, each rated according to length, elevation gain, class, and snow steepness,...
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Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck.Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death. The next three days were an impossibly...
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Best known as one of the guides who perished on Mount Everest during the tragic spring of 1996, Scott Fischer became for many a symbol of audacity, hubris, and the limits of human endurance. Birkby traces Scott's expeditions from the granite walls of Yosemite to Alaska to the punishing storms of the Himalayas--a relentless quest for new highs that builds inexorably to the rendezvous with disaster on Everest
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Rock Climbing Colorado is the only guide available that covers all the major climbing areas in the Centennial State, with routes ranging from 5.0 to 5.14-including the big cliffs and faces of Rocky Mountain National Park, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, and the smaller crags and outcrops of Pikes Peak, Boulder, Rifle, Shelf Road, and Eleven Mile Canyon. In all thirty-seven areas covered, the book provides first-hand overviews and climbing histories,...
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Now celebrating its twentieth year in print, this classic guidebook has helped thousands of ambitious hikers and climbers to summit as many of Colorado's fifty-four 14,000+ foot peaks as possible. For others, the guide has enhanced favorite weekend outings, where numbers of climbs matter less than the exhilaration of simply ""reaching the top""!In this twentieth anniversary edition, the foremost guide to the Fourteeners continues its longstanding...
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Cassidy Ivanoff and her father, John, work at the new and prestigious Curry Hotel outside Mt. McKinley. While John will be expedition and wilderness exploration guide for the wealthy tourists, Cassidy has signed on as a cook's assistant. Both are busy as the hotel prepares to welcome the president of the United States on his way to drive in the golden spike to officially complete the railroad. Allan Brennan travels to the Curry Hotel to be an apprentice...
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"A thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The Terror. It's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine high on the shoulder of Mt. Everest. By the following year, three climbers -- a British poet and veteran of the Great War, a young French Chamonix...
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[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"Even an experienced climber like Brian Dickinson faces great odds when they make their way to the top of Everest. And when facing the sun, Brian had an even bigger problem. Blinded by the light, Brian had to make his way down a mountain alone, while fighting to keep breathing. Explore the exciting true story of a mountain survivor pushed to the limits in this graphic adventure. Then, learn mountain survival tips and read the stories of other mountain...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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Rudi yearns to complete the quest his father died for; reaching the top the Citadel, the highest mountain in Switzerland. With only his father's red shirt and a humble staff, he steals away from his sleeping mother, and begins his climb upward into the unknown.
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Fourteener mania, the phenomena characterized by a seemingly obsessive drive to summit The List of all fifty-four of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks, is an older tradition than many may realize. Along with intensely positive experiences in climbing is the possibility of the opposite extremeto become stranded, severely injured, or even killed, in disturbingly easy ways. This book explores this dark side of climbing. When an accident happens on a 14er,...