everest, mount (china and nepal)

"Exciting illustrations follow Edmund Hillary's journey up Mount Everest. The combination of brightly colored panels and leveled text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7."--Provided by publisher.

About an hour after he left the South Summit of Mt. Everest, Brian Dickinson became snow blind. To make matters worse, his Sherpa guide, Pasang, had become ill during their ascent, and with only 1,000 feet to go, Dickinson had sent him back to camp. Dickinson attributes his successful blind descent to his Navy survival training, his gut instinct, and faith.

On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared into the mists of history on Mount Everest. In 1999, Mallory's body was found high on the mountain and Irvine's body is believed to still be up there. Graham Hoyland's 1993 climb led to the discovery of Mallory's body.

Reconstructs the final effort of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1924, a climb in which they both died; and tells the story of the Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition of 1999 in which climbers found Mallory's body and attempted to discover whether the 1924 team had ever made it to the top.

An introduction to climbing Mount Everest, covering the dangers involved, the training needed, and discussing famous climbs.

Recounts the climb to the top of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, and the photograph taken by Alfred Gregory that documented it.

Examines the many attempts by mountaineers to be the first to reach the top of Mount Everest, the lives lost, and the men who finally conquered it in 1953.

Examines the possibility that the rigors of the experience of an ascent of Mt. Everest can cause permanent, damaging changes to the human brain and body, following a team of climbers, under close monitoring by scientists, during an expedition to the summit of Everest and back again.

Summarizes attempts to climb to the top of Mount Everest from the first expedition in 1922 to the first ascent by an all-woman team in 1975.