The Resource To the top of Everest, Laurie Skreslet, with Elizabeth MacLeod
To the top of Everest, Laurie Skreslet, with Elizabeth MacLeod
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The item To the top of Everest, Laurie Skreslet, with Elizabeth MacLeod represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library.
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- Summary
- The author, who became the 131st person to reach the peak of Mount Everest in 1982, recounts his experience, and explains how his achievement came with a heavy price as he and his expedition faced hidden crevasses, blinding snowstorms, horrible altitude sickness, and more. Skreslet shares details of the climb, which is illustrated with full-color photos
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (56 pages
- Note
- Ages 10 and up
- Contents
-
- Almost there
- Growing up
- Learning to climb
- Mountain
- Gear for the climb
- Heading to Everest
- Life at base camp
- Who's who on the team
- Climbing on icefall
- Disaster strikes
- Down the mountain
- Back on Everest
- Going it alone
- Life on the mountain
- Getting there
- Weather closes in
- We head for camp four
- Early morning climb
- Top of the world!
- Dangerous descent
- Heading home
- After Everest
- Glossary
- Label
- To the top of Everest
- Title
- To the top of Everest
- Statement of responsibility
- Laurie Skreslet, with Elizabeth MacLeod
- Subject
-
- Alpinistes -- Canada -- Biographies | Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Mountaineering -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
- Skreslet, Laurie -- Juvenile literature
- Alpinisme -- Everest, Mont (Chine et Népal) -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Mountaineers -- Canada -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Mountaineers
- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- Description and travel
- Skreslet, Laurie
- Mountaineering -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- Juvenile literature
- Skreslet, Laurie -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature
- Everest, Mont (Chine et Népal) -- Descriptions et voyages -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The author, who became the 131st person to reach the peak of Mount Everest in 1982, recounts his experience, and explains how his achievement came with a heavy price as he and his expedition faced hidden crevasses, blinding snowstorms, horrible altitude sickness, and more. Skreslet shares details of the climb, which is illustrated with full-color photos
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- CaOTU
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Skreslet, Laurie
- Dewey number
- j796.52/2/095496
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- GV199.92
- LC item number
- .N65 2001
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- MacLeod, Elizabeth
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Skreslet, Laurie
- Mountaineering
- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
- Mountaineers
- Skreslet, Laurie
- Alpinisme
- Everest, Mont (Chine et Népal)
- Alpinistes
- Skreslet, Laurie
- Mountaineers
- Mountaineering
- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
- Target audience
- juvenile
- Label
- To the top of Everest, Laurie Skreslet, with Elizabeth MacLeod
- Note
- Ages 10 and up
- Contents
- Almost there -- Growing up -- Learning to climb -- Mountain -- Gear for the climb -- Heading to Everest -- Life at base camp -- Who's who on the team -- Climbing on icefall -- Disaster strikes -- Down the mountain -- Back on Everest -- Going it alone -- Life on the mountain -- Getting there -- Weather closes in -- We head for camp four -- Early morning climb -- Top of the world! -- Dangerous descent -- Heading home -- After Everest -- Glossary
- Extent
- 1 online resource (56 pages
- Form of item
- online
- Other physical details
- color illustrations)
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036973255
- Label
- To the top of Everest, Laurie Skreslet, with Elizabeth MacLeod
- Note
- Ages 10 and up
- Contents
- Almost there -- Growing up -- Learning to climb -- Mountain -- Gear for the climb -- Heading to Everest -- Life at base camp -- Who's who on the team -- Climbing on icefall -- Disaster strikes -- Down the mountain -- Back on Everest -- Going it alone -- Life on the mountain -- Getting there -- Weather closes in -- We head for camp four -- Early morning climb -- Top of the world! -- Dangerous descent -- Heading home -- After Everest -- Glossary
- Extent
- 1 online resource (56 pages
- Form of item
- online
- Other physical details
- color illustrations)
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036973255
Subject
- Alpinisme -- Everest, Mont (Chine et Népal) -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Alpinistes -- Canada -- Biographies | Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Everest, Mont (Chine et Népal) -- Descriptions et voyages -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- Description and travel
- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature
- Mountaineering -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
- Mountaineering -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- Juvenile literature
- Mountaineers
- Mountaineers -- Canada -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Skreslet, Laurie
- Skreslet, Laurie -- Juvenile literature
- Skreslet, Laurie -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
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