Into the Clouds: The Race to Climb the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Scholastic Focus)

by Tod Olson

Book Overview

A nail-biting tale of survival and brotherhood atop one of the deadliest mountains on Earth.

In 1953, as two men summit Mt. Everest for the first time, Charlie Houston and a team of mountaineers carve a path up the second-highest peak on Earth: the deadly K2. Four Houston, reaching the top of K2 is a lifelong dream, an obsession that began 15 years earlier on his first expedition there.Since then, another American expdition has fallen apart...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1338207369
• ISBN13: 9781338207361
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Scholastic Focus
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7