
Climbing Everest (Totally True Adventures): How Two Friends Reached Earth's Highest Peak
Paperback
Series: Totally True Adventures
General Juvenile NonfictionHistorySports & Recreation
Publisher Price: $5.99
ISBN13: 9780553509861
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: Aug 4 2015
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
The peak of Mount Everest is the highest place on Earth--and one of the deadliest. Terrible storms stop climbers in their tracks! Avalanches tumble down! Brave adventurers disappear on the snowy slopes. Then Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay decide to climb. They come from different cultures, but their dream is the same. Can teamwork help them make it to the roof of the world?
This nonfiction chapter book makes history exciting and accessible for younger readers and features illustrations, photographs, a map, Common Core connections, and additional Story Behind the Story facts.
Perfect for readers of the I Survived series and the Who Was . . . ? series, Totally True Adventures are captivating nonfiction stories with not-to-be-missed bonus content.
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