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  Three Cups of Tea: Young Reader's Edition

  One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time

  by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Sarah L. Thomson

  This young readers edition of the worldwide bestseller Three Cups of Tea has been specially adapted for younger readers and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable story of humanitarianism up to date for the present. Includes new photos and illustrations, as well as a special interview by Greg’s twelve-year-old daughter, Amira, who has traveled with her father as an advocate for the Pennies for Peace... (more)
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  Three Cups of Tea

  One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time

  by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

  The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and... (more)
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  K2

  Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain

  by Ed Viesturs

  A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world’s most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top At 28,251 feet, the world’s second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as deadly as Everest,... (more)
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  No Way Down

  Life and Death on K2

  by Graham Bowley

  “A fascinating account that does justice to the history, allure and heartache of K2.” (Kurt Diemberger, author of The Endless Knot ) “Both a gripping read and a clear-eyed investigation, No Way Down provides a compelling education in the game of climbing on the world’s highest mountains to readers who have never tied into a rope, and is an essential addition to any mountaineer’s bookshelf.” (Michael Kodas, author... (more)
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  Savage Summit

  by Jennifer Jordan

  Though not as tall as Everest, the "Savage Mountain" is far more dangerous. Located on the border of China and Pakistan, K2 has some of the harshest climbing conditions in the world. Ninety women have scaled Everest but of the six women who reached the summit of K2, three lost their lives on the way back down the mountain and two have since died on other climbs. In Savage Summit , Jennifer Jordan shares the... (more)
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  Brotherhood of the Rope: The Biography of Charles Houston

  by Bernadette McDonald

  It was a failed summit attempt and a failed rescue in the Himalaya that brought Charles Houston, M.D., fame and adulation in the mountaineering world. His leadership of the K2 expedition of 1953 is still celebrated as the embodiment of all that is right and good in the mountains. In Brotherhood of the Rope, Bernadette McDonald traces the development of an American hero. Houston is a mountaineer whose... (more)
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  In the Zone: Epic Survival Stories from the Mountaineering World

  by Peter Potterfield

  Three gripping climbing narratives of climbers who have narrowly escaped death.
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  In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods

  by Galen A. Rowell

  This is the first paperback editon of the classic eyewitness account, by photo-journalist and climber Galen Rowell, of the unsuccessful 1985 American attempt to scale K2, the world's second-highest mountain peak in the Karakoram Range between China and Kashmir. Black-and-white and color photographs.
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  Three Cups of Tea: Young Reader's Edition

  by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

  This young readers edition of the worldwide bestseller Three Cups of Tea has been specially adapted for younger readers and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable story of humanitarianism up to date for the present. Includes new photos and illustrations, as well as a special interview by Greg’s twelve-year-old daughter, Amira, who has traveled with her father as an advocate for the Pennies for Peace... (more)
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  K2, Triumph and Tragedy

  by Jim Curran

  K2, "the savage mountain", is the second-highest peak in the world - and the most difficult to cllimb. In 1986, it was the site of both dazzling triumph and great loss as twenty-seven men and women reached the top but thirteen died trying. Tto this day it ramains the single greatest tragedy in the history of mountaineering. Curran was there to record it all in words and photographs: courage and obsession,... (more)