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bA nail-biting tale of survival and brotherhood atop one of the deadliest mountains on Earth./bpIn 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./pSince then, another American expdition has fallen apart on the remote, windswept mass of rock and ice.pNow, Houston's team follows in their tracks. With the summit in their grasp, a vicious storm and a sudden illness puts their own expedition on the edge of disaster, turning their qust to conquer a mountain into one of the most daring rescue missions ever./pThree expeditions and a high-mountain rivalry.
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Tod Olson is author of the historical fiction series HOW TO GET RICH, a Booklist Top Ten Series Non Fiction for Youth selection (don't tell them, but it's fiction) . The first book in his new narrative nonfiction series, LOST, will be published by Scholastic in Fall 2016. Tod lives with his family in Vermont and holds an MFA from Vermont College of the Fine Arts.
