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1) Meru
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 4
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...
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1953, the ascent of Everest remained the last of Earth's great challenges. Standing at over 29,000ft, the world's highest mountain posed a fearsome challenge and had already claimed thirteen lives in previous expeditions. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay finally achieved the impossible and became the first men to stand atop Everest, it was an event that stunned the world and defined an era.
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.
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
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
[xx, 329] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"In the course of one extraordinary year, Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson were hailed worldwide at the discovers of the North Pole; Britains Ernest Shackleton had set a new geographic “Furthest South” record, while his expedition mate, Australian Douglas Mawson, had reached the Magnetic South Pole; and at the roof of the world, Italys Duke of the Abruzzi had attained an altitude record that would stand for a generation, the result of...
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