In the late morning of May 29th 1953, the sun was shining brightly on the roof of the world, a gentle breeze was blowing and two men were there to witness it for the first time ever. Their names were Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay and the roof of the world was Everest. This is the story of how two very different yet equally determined men battled frost-biting temperatures, tumbling ice rocks, powerful winds and death-defying ridges to reach the...

?I believe that nothing is impossible if you dare to dream, plan and take action. I?m an ordinary girl who simply refused to give up on a dream, and that?s all it takes to succeed in life.? Alyssa Azar is unstoppable. When she was just eight years old, she walked the gruelling Kokoda Track, the youngest person in the world to do so. At 12 she climbed the 10 highest peaks in Australia. Two years later she touched the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. Now,...

This is the story of one of the survivors of the infamous 1996 Everest disaster. It describes not only the author's indomitable will to live but also his determination to rebuild his life after the disaster.

In 2006, 11 people died attempting to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the most fatalities since 1996. Nick Heil tells the story of two climbers - one who died and one who survived - and looks at how far some people will go in their single-minded pursuit of the ultimate mountaineering prize.

John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalayas. Michael Spender was the first to survey the northern approach to the summit of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers - W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender - achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that would see an Englishman be the first to reach the summit of Everest, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain's struggle to maintain power over India. To this rivalry...