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1) Everest
Formats
Description
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, the film documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Half a century ago, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first humans to stand atop the highest mountain on earth. Now their sons and Brent Bishop, son of the first American to summit Everest, make a historic expedition to face Everest's unforgiving heights."--Container.
3) Everest
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Filmed during the infamous 1996 storm that claimed eight lives, Everest documents the filmmakers' harrowing rescue efforts to help the surviving members of the ill-fated group. The international team of climbers scale the world's tallest peak in this daring adventure of triumph and tragedy.
5) Abominable
Publisher
Dreamworks
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When teenage Yi encounters a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building in a modern Chinese city, she and her mischievous friends, Jin and Peng, name him Everest and embark on an epic quest to reunite the magical creature with his family at the highest point on Earth. But the trio of friends will have to stay one step ahead of Burnish, a wealthy man intent on capturing a Yeti, and zoologist Dr. Zara to help Everest get home.
Author
Publisher
Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
236 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Rising is both a gripping, adrenalin-filled mountain story and a reflective memoir that reaches beyond the summit to explore a life lived in Everest's long shadow: unexpected acclaim, outrageous expectations, and personal struggles.
8) Abominable
Publisher
Dreamworks
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When teenage Yi encounters a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building in Shanghai, she and her mischievous friends, Jin and Peng, name him "Everest" and embark on an epic quest to reunite the magical creature with his family at the highest point on Earth. But the trio of friends will have to stay one-step ahead of Burnish, a wealthy man intent on capturing a Yeti, and zoologist Dr. Zara to help Everest get home.
Author
Publisher
Dutton, Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xviii, 429 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Veteran climber Mark Synnott never planned on climbing Mount Everest, but a hundred-year mystery lured him into an expedition--and an awesome history of passionate adventure, chilling tragedy, and human aspiration unfolded"--
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
357 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Description
"Much has changed on Mount Everest in recent years. This is the first book to detail how the recent infusion of wealth into the mountains is reacting with the age-old lust for glory to draw crime to the highest places on the planet, and how a mountain's ability to reduce climbers to their essential selves is revealing villains as well as heroes, greed as well as selflessness. The change is caused both by a tremendous boom in traffic to the world's...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
Presents the true story of Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay who, realizing his own dreams, helped Sir Edmund Hillary reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953--an event that changed history and caused both of these men to become heroes.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (262 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sir Edmund Hillary was a bee-keeper, mountaineer, war veteran, explorer, philanthropist, husband, father, and the first person to ever reach the summit of Mount Everest. From his childhood in South Auckland, New Zealand, to the plane crash that killed his wife and daughter, the intriguing drama portrays the life, loves, and losses of one of the most famous explorers of all time.
14) Tenzing Norgay
Author
Formats
Description
"When Tenzing was young, he spent much of his childhood tending to the family's yaks and gazing up at the Himalaya mountains, dreaming of the day he would reach the top. Once he grew up, he joined many other Sherpas who were offering to take Europeans up the highest mountain of all--Chomolungma or Everest. It was the chance he needed to make his childhood dream a reality. He went on many expeditions, some more dangerous than others, but Tenzing never...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
663 pages ; 25 cm
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...
Author
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary each tell their story, culminating in their thrilling ascent of Mount Everest. Tenzing Norgay grew up in Nepal, herding yaks in the shadow of Chomolungma, the mountain also known as Everest. He has always dreamed of climbing to the top. He becomes a guide, leading treks through the Himalayas, and finally attempts the highest mountain himself, but doesn't make it. Across the ocean, in New Zealand, Edmund Hillary grew...
18) Paths of glory
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
This real-life mountaineering mystery recounts the story of Britain's George Mallory and his attempt to scale Mt. Everest.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Everest: Dramatic story of a team of climbers who found hope, strength, and triumph in the wake of tragedy.
Titanica: Plunge beneath the surface of the North Atlantic on a high-risk journey to the resting place of the ill-fated Titanic!
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