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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.
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!
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...
6) 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.
7) 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...
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