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Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0439411378
Kids from all over North America vie to be the first youngest person to climb Mount Everest. When the final four reach the highest peaks, disaster strikes.
Author : Julie Rak
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780228007739
The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism. False Summit unpacks gender politics in the expedition narratives and memoirs of mountaineers in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Why are women still a minority in the world's highest places? Julie Rak proposes that the genre has itself reached a "false summit" – a peak that proves not to be the pinnacle – and that mountaineering is not ready to welcome other ways of climbing or other kinds of climbers. For more than two centuries mountaineering, as an activity and as an ideal, has helped shape how the self is understood within the context of conquest, adventure, and proximity to risk. As climbing shows signs of becoming more diverse, Rak asks why change is so hard to achieve and why gender bias and other inequities exist in climbing at all. Exploring classic and lesser-known expedition accounts from Everest, K2, and Annapurna, False Summit helps us understand why mountaineering remains one of the most important ways to articulate gender identities and politics.
Author : Zahra Al-harazi,Sarah J. Robbins
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443443104
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER The trajectory of Zahra Al-harazi’s life defies expectations. In this electrifying book that travels from a small village in Yemen to a small town in Minnesota to a Calgary suburb, Al-harazi describes surviving two civil wars; her years as a young, stay-at-home immigrant mother with little education; and how she became one of Canada’s most successful businesswomen. Navigating two worlds, Al-harazi has struggled to find her own way between East and West, religion and belief, freedom and obligation, family and desire, love and honour, despair and gratitude, war and war again. With warmth and courageous honesty, she recounts how it is only through gratitude and persistence that we can find happiness and the courage to build the life we want.
Author : Harry Farthing
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504710206
"Magnificent! A compelling, fast-paced novel that reveals a rarely seen dark side of Everest. A must-read!"-James W. Huston, New York Times bestselling author of The Blood Flag The view from 8,848 meters isn't always clear. Even after eight successful summits, Mount Everest guide Neil Quinn can't handle anything the mountain throws his way. Disaster strikes steps from the top, leaving him with a very old swastika-embellished ice axe that should never have been so high on the mountain-not if Everest's meticulously documented history is accurate. Danger doesn't stop at the descent. When he heads back to Europe, blackballed and alone, he struggles to discover the truth about this lost relic. Quinn's investigations soon have neo-Nazis, assassins, and history buffs vying to take possession of the axe-proof of Nazi alpine superiority, and strong evidence that a German climber was the first to summit Mount Everest. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, Summit follows two climbers across two continents as their stories intertwine across history, culminating in one final push for the top of the world. "Gripping...Farthing vividly depicts the challenges of mountain climbing."-Publishers Weekly
Author : Robyn Carr
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780778318705
Return to Virgin River with the books that started it all... When Connor Danson becomes an unwitting witness to a violent crime, he is forced to leave Sacramento and keep a low profile until the trial is over. He arrives in the tiny mountain town of Virgin River with a chip on his shoulder and an ache in his heart. Leslie Petruso didn't want to leave her hometown, either. But she can't stand another minute of listening to her ex-husband tell everyone that his new wife and impending fatherhood are the best things that ever happened to him. Virgin River may not be home, but it's a place where she can be anonymous. Neither Connor nor Leslie is remotely interested in starting a new relationship...until they meet one another. Even they can't deny they have a lot in common--broken hearts notwithstanding. And in Virgin River, no one can stay hidden away from life and love for very long
Author : Nick Heil
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307369512
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, Nick Heil recounts the harrowing story of the deadly and controversial 2006 climbing season on Everest. In early May 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was left for dead near the same spot. Hall’s death was reported around the world, but the next day he was found alive after spending the night on the upper mountain with no food and no shelter. If David Sharp’s death was shocking, it was not singular: despite unusually good weather, ten others died attempting to reach the summit that year. In this meticulous inquiry into what went wrong, Nick Heil tells the full story of the deadliest year on Everest since the infamous season of 1996. He introduces Russell Brice, the outfitter who has done more than anyone to provide access to the summit via the mountain’s north side–and who some believe was partially responsible for Sharp’s death. As more climbers attempt the summit each year, Heil shows how increasingly risky expeditions and unscrupulous outfitters threaten to turn Everest into a deadly circus. Written by an experienced climber and outdoor writer, Dark Summit is both a riveting account of a notorious climbing season and a troubling investigation into whether the pursuit of the ultimate mountaineering prize has spiralled out of control.
Author : Pat Falvey,Pemba Gyalje, Sherpa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : K2 (Pakistan : Mountain)
ISBN : 1847176437
On 1 August 2008, thirty-four climbers from seven international expeditions joined forces in their attempt to reach the summit of K2. Tragedy struck and for three days Sherpa Pemba Gyalje and others tried to save the lives of those around them. A gripping eye-witness account of one of mountaineerings most controversial disasters.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556038322434
Author : Baku Yumemakura,Jirō Taniguchi
Publisher : Ponent Mon, S.L.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 8496427870
Did the truth about Mallory's ascent of Mt Everest in 1924 - almost three decades before Hillary - die with him on those unforgiving slopes? Or was the secret buried deep within a simple camera? Taniguchi's realistic art and Baku's tireless script will take readers to the heights that only mountaineers dream of.
Author : D.B. Rao
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : International cooperation
ISBN : 8171416322
Millennium Summit of the United Nations was held from 6 to 8 September 2000 at the United Nations headquarters, New York. The Millennium Summit, the largest-ever gathering of world leaders heads of State or Government or their representatives addressed a host of issues under the official theme The United Nations in the 21st Century.
Author : Yi Lu
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781571319364
Translated to English, this collection of contemporary Chinese poetry examines humanity’s relationship with nature and the ecological crisis. Influenced by both the “gray, sinister sea” near the village where Yi Lu grew up during the Cultural Revolution, and the beauty of the sea in the books she read as a child, Sea Summit is a collection of paradox and questioning. The sea is an impossible force to the poet: it is both a majestic presence that predates man, and something to carry with us wherever we go, to be put “by an ancient rattan chair,” so we can watch “its waves toss” from above. Exploring the current ecological crisis and our complicated relationship to the wildness around us, Yi Lu finds something more complex than a traditional nature poet might in the mysterious connection between herself and the forces of nature represented by the boundless ocean. Translated brilliantly by the acclaimed poet Fiona Sze-Lorrain, this collection of poems introduces an important contemporary Chinese poet to English-language readers. Praise for Sea Summit “Yi Lu is a theatre scenographer, and her poems brim with the imagistic tendencies we might expect from a visual artist. More specifically, her poetic style fits that of a theatrical set designer. Within the poetry of Sea Summit, the images are like set pieces. They play supporting roles as they help to tell the speaker’s stories. . . . Sensitive and poignant poetry.” —The Literary Review “A compilation of over twenty years of work. . . . Yi’s poetry shows the world as staggeringly simultaneous, from a crowded conference room in the middle of the city to the titular wave rising under the incredible volume of the ocean. . . . This collection is a great introduction to Yi Lu, already one of the most widely read poets in China.” —The Los Angeles Review “With this selection of more than 80 of her ecologically conscious lyric poems, Yi receives a generous introduction to English readers. The pastoral is Yi’s mode of choice, and the poems here take as their subject matter the natural world as well as the human experience of it. . . . Sze-Lorrain’s steadfast translations, presented en-face, make accessible one of China’s most famous woman poets.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : James Dziezynski
Publisher : Wilderness Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780899977126
Information provided for each hike includes topographic map with GPS waypoints and elevation profile; difficulty and class rating tailored to Colorado's terrain; optional routes for further exploration; and trivia and history.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Government publications
ISBN : IND:30000027982085
Prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, and highway safety professionals from around the country met in 1991 for Traffic Safety Summit II. The Summit produced 188 recommendations on all aspects of the prosecution and adjudication of traffic offenses. To assist in implementing these recommendations, then Secretary of Transportation Skinner appointed an Implementation Group, composed of the Summit working group moderators. This report describes the Implementation Group's accomplishments during its two year charter. The Implementation Group prioritized the recommendations. The highest priority recommendations fell into four major areas: training and education, records, assessment and treatment, and legislation.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : UCSD:31822017608100
The Kremlin looks upon a summit conference solely as another weapon in its program of global conquest, four experts on international communism warned in a recent staff consultation with the Committee on Un-American Activities.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428967922