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Facing
Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mt.Everest
Author(s):
Bear Grylls
Publisher:
Macmillan,London
Published:
3/24/2000
Format:
Hard cover
Only one in
four people who attempt Everest are successful, and of those few the
majority are over 30. Bear Grylls overcame the extreme weather
conditions and months of limited sleep, and reached ...
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Mountains
of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit
Author(s):
Robert Macfarlane
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Published:
7/1/2004
Format:
Trade paperback
Combining
accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of
his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals
how the mystery of the world's highest places....
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Life
and Death on Mt .Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
Author(s):
Sherry B. Ortner
Publisher:
Columbia and Princeton University Presses of California
Published:
12/31/2001
Format:
Soft cover
Sherpas and
Himalayan Mountaineering.
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To
the Top of Everest
Author(s):
Elizabeth MacLeod; Laurie Skreslet
Publisher:
Kids Can Press
Published:
9/1/2003
Format:
Soft Cover
Skreslet
worked hard and challenged himself to achieve his dream of climbing
Mount Everest. He talks about his overprotective parents and his
unyielding desire for adventure, leaving home at age 17 to join the
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Into
Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Author(s):
Jon Krakauer
Publisher:
Anchor Books
Published:
10/1/1999
Format:
Trade paperback
Now
available in paperback comes the bestselling adventure book by Jon
Krakauer, the acclaimed author of "Into the Wild". When
disaster struck during his ascent of Mt. Everest, killing eight
climbers,
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TRUE
EVEREST ADVENTURE STORIES
Author(s):
PAUL DOWELL
Publisher:
USBORNE
Format:
Paperback
Exciting
and fast moving retellings of classic and true stories
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Facing
Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mt.Everest
Author(s):
Bear Grylls
Publisher:
MACMILLAN AUDIO BOOKS
Published:
3/24/2000
Format:
Audiobook
Only one in
four people who attempt Everest are successful, and of those few the
majority are over 30. Bear Grylls overcame the extreme weather
conditions and months of limited sleep, and reached...
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Surviving
Everest: 50 Years On The Mountain
Format:
Video
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Surviving
Everest: 50 Years On The Mountain
Format: DVD
Movie
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KILIMANJARO
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Vintage
Classics: The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Author(s):
Ernest Hemingway
Publisher:
Vintage
Published:
3/4/2004
Format:
Paperback
In these
early Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and
women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic
intensity. They range from haunting tragedy on the snow-cap.....
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Rough
Guide Travel Guides: Tanzania
Author(s):
Jens Finke
Publisher:
Rough Guides
Published:
12/31/2002
Format:
Paperback
Tanzania
offers the traveller a varied geography that ranges from Mount
Kilimanjaro, the Serengeti and Lake Tanganyika to the shores of the
Indian Ocean.
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Shadow
of Kilimanjaro: On Foot Across East Africa
Author(s):
Rick Ridgeway
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publisher.
Published:
4/17/2000
Format:
Paperback
An
incredible journey on foot from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to
the Indian Ocean, offering a rare view of East Africa as it is today
and how it once was before the incursion of European civilisation
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Kilimanjaro
- To The Roof Of Africa
Format: DVD
Movie
Join a band
of trekkers as they journey through rugged terrain and extreme
conditions to look out from Africa's highest point in the latest
mountain adventure film from David Breashears
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Snows
Of Kilimanjaro
Format: DVD
Movie
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Thorns
to Kilimanjaro
Author(s):
Ian McCallum
Publisher:
New Africa Books
Published:
5/1/2001
Format:
Paperback
This is the
story of two journeys, one which makes its way towards the slopes
and summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and another which takes a curving
inner path into the soul of the narrator.
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True
Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent on Annapurna
Author(s):
David Roberts
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Published:
2/1/2002
Format:
Trade paperback
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Annapurna:
The First Conquest of an 8000-metre Peak
Author(s):
Maurice Herzog
Publisher:
Pimlico
Published:
2/6/1997
Format:
Paperback
One of the
great works of mountaineering literature - long out of print and now
reissued with a new introduction by Joe Simpson.
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Altitude
Illness Prevention and Treatment
Author(s):
Stephen Bezruchka
Publisher:
Mountaineers Books
Published:
9/1/2005
Format:
Softcover
Updated guidelines for people
going to altitude (heights over 7,000 feet) with pre-existing health
conditions such as heart conditions, diabetes, and cancer.
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