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Examines the experience of teens in Nepal, looking at a typical day, what happens in school, family life, holidays, work, and entertainment. Includes photographs, a glossary, and a historical time line.

Television personality Jeff Corwin takes the reader on an expedition to Nepal to learn about the diverse wildlife found there.

Chronicles the life of Tenzing Norgay, the guide who helped Ed Hillary become the first person to scale Mount Everest.

Presents the life and career of mountaineer, Tenzing Norkey focusing on his humble roots, his climb to the summit of Mount Everest, friendships, depression, family, heroism, and his health decline.

Describes the life and work of Jhalak Man Tamang, a Nepalese teenage boy who spent a part of his childhood as a worker in a carpet factory and went on to be an advocate for child labor laws; and explores the problem of slave labor around the world.

Photographs and text describe the first successful climb to the top of Mount Everest and the many failed attempts made prior to the 1953 triumph.

A collection of accounts by Nepalese children who once worked in carpet factories that describe the changes that have taken place in their young lives.

An account of the author's 1984 trek around the Himalayas and through the remote and largely forbidden country of western Nepal.

In 1950, when no mountain taller than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed, Maurice Herzog led an expedition of French climbers to the summit of an 8,075 meter (26,493 feet) Himalayan peak called Annapurna. The route had never been charted and Herzog and his team had to locate the mountain using crude maps. The account of this climb and the nightmare descent, constitutes one of the great mountain adventure stories of all time. Herzog's achievment was surpassed only when Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953.