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Global search and rescue volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Alaska. Former pararescue jumper Orion Starr is haunted by the memory of a rescue gone wrong. He has no desire to join Hamilton Jones's elite rescue team, but he also can't shirk his duty when the call comes in to rescue three lost climbers on Denali. Former CIA profiler and psychiatrist Jenny Calhoun's yearly extreme challenge with her best friends is her only escape from the guilt that has sunk its claws into her. As a consultant during a top-secret...
Author
Series
Moose Springs Alaska volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Former Hollywood darling River Lane's acting career is tanking fast. Determined to start fresh behind the camera, she agrees to film a documentary about the picturesque small town of Moose Springs, Alaska. The assignment should have been easy, but the quirky locals want nothing to do with River...Easton Lockett may be a gentle giant, but he knows a thing or two about survival. If he can keep everyone in line, he should be able to get River and her...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Reluctant socialite Coraline Baxter longs to live a life of significance and leave her mark on the world. When her local suffragette group asks her to climb Mount Rainier to raise awareness of their cause, she jumps at the chance, even though she has absolutely no climbing experience. If she can do it, any woman can do it. And after her mother issues an ultimatum--that Cora marry the man of her mother's choosing if she is not successful--Cora must...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing their eyes. The case, given...
8) Peak
Author
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Working for Zach Montgomery is challenging on many levels. Coming from a wealthy and powerful family, he lives by his own rules and doesn't answer to anyone. But Gabriella Martine has no intention of backing down. She's used to handling stubborn men, and it doesn't hurt that Zach is smart, charismatic and gorgeous. Zach's perfect world is turned upside down when a climbing accident leaves him broken, angry, and maddeningly dependent. In his slow...
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Physical Desc
427 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kamzin dreamed of becoming one of the Emperor's royal explorers, the elite climbers tasked with mapping the wintry, mountainous Empire and spying on its enemies. Then River Shara, the greatest explorer ever known, arrives and demands to hire Kamzin -- not her older sister Lusha, as everyone had expected -- for his next expedition. River's mission to retrieve a rare talisman for the emperor; it means climbing Raksha, the tallest and deadliest mountain...
12) Lily's mountain
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
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Description
Unable to believe their father died while climbing Mount Denali, twelve-year-old Lily and her older sister, Sophie, climb the mountain in order to rescue him.
13) Above all else
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Teen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
307 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-olds Rose and Tate are long-time friends and climbing buddies, and now they are embarking on the greatest climb of all--Mount Everest--with Tate's father and another friend; but as the climbers encounter physical and emotional challenges the higher they go, the expedition starts to slide toward disaster, testing the teens' courage and determination" --
Author
Series
Bear Grylls adventures volume 10
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
"Lily is a great team player, but she finds it hard to speak up and make herself heard. When a fun activity at camp lands her unexpectedly on a mountaineering adventure with Bear Grylls, there are challenges for Lily on every cliff. Together they must plot the route down the mountain and avoid rockfalls, sheer drops and dangerous wild animals..." --Page [4] cover.
16) The contest
Author
Series
Everest volume 1
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
137 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
17) Deadpoint
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (189 pages).
Language
English
Description
Ayla loves climbing. But she prefers to climb indoors, with all her safety harnesses in place and soft mats to land on. Her climbing partner and best friend, Lissy, is much more adventurous and loves the outdoors. When Lissy starts hanging out with Carlos, the new thrill-seeking guy in town, Ayla wants to keep an eye on her and finds herself tagging along on a weekend climbing trip up Black Dog Mountain. But things go very wrong when Lissy and her...
18) Everest
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
204 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
As part of a group of young climbers trying to climb Mount Everest, the reader must make decisions that will ensure survival and success in reaching the summit.
Author
Series
Memoirs of Lady Trent volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Within the Sanctuary of Wings is the conclusion to Marie Brennan's thrilling Lady Trent Memoirs After nearly five decades (and, indeed, the same number of volumes), one might think they were well-acquainted with the Lady Isabella Trent--dragon naturalist, scandalous explorer, and perhaps as infamous for her company and feats of daring as she is famous for her discoveries and additions to the scientific field. And yet--after her initial adventure in...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Edition.
Lexile measure
1250L
Physical Desc
663 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...