everest, mount (china and nepal)

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.

Presents the life and accomplishments of Edmund Hillary the famous explorer from New Zealand, one of the first to scale Mount Everest.

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.

Stephen Venables chronicles the experiences he and his three companions had as they tried to scale Everest's most challenging and remote wall.

The author chronicles his climb up Everest in 1988, and describes how these experiences altered his views on success; and includes exercises that allow the reader to evaluate their own core values.

A story about a competition between four students who face the challenges of being the youngest to ever climb Mount Everest.

Contains an introduction to the mathematical concepts of commutative, associative, and distributive properties, by chronicling the expedition of climbing Mount Everest.