Summary Of Roland Smith's Peak

10 feet from the top of the deadliest mountain in the world, a mountain that captivated thousands of people over centuries, 14-year-old Peak Marcello is about to become the youngest climber ever to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. However, Peak suddenly stops and doesn’t go to the summit. Instead, he helps his friend Sun-jo gets there first so Sun-jo becomes the youngest climber to reach Mt. Everest. Peak helped Sun-jo achieve fame and glory by reaching the mountain, yet he had not. What happened that made Peak make this decision? The author of the novel Peak, Roland Smith shows Peak as a self-centered boy who realizes that doing the right thing is more important that any accomplishment.

The book "Within Reach: My Everest Story" by Mark Pfetzer wand Jack Galvin is an autobiography written by Mark Pfestzer at the age of 16. Mark writes about his mountain climbing adventures over a 4 year period that started at the age of 12. The book covers the years of Mark's life mountain climbing from 1992 all the way up to 1996 when Mark is actually climbing on Mount Everest. The chapters in the book are written in a first person narrative with a dated diary format. Each one of Mark's entries talks about his struggles, adventures and personal experiences with the challenges of climbing a mountain.

“A trans-like state settles over your efforts, the climb becomes a clear eyed dream.” Stated Krakauer in The Devils Thumb. Mountain climbing has become a popular interest for thrill-seekers in modern times. It is an immensely challenging activity, involving strength, determination, and the proper mindset. There are many accounts of mountain climbers heroically reaching the summit of mountains, but none more striking than that of Everest and The Devils Thumb. These are gut wrenching, first hand accounts of some of the greatest feats performed in mountain climbing history, although they are each different in their own way. Krakauer was climbing to find himself amongst the frozen rocks and chest deep snow, and Weihnmayer climbed to push his limits, and to accomplish what many thought to be the impossible.

Josh here ignores Peak for his entire life, no birthday presents, Christmas cards, not even a letter, just a pile of unopened mail he received over the course of ten years, that he sleeps next to every night. Then, he suddenly appears to bail Peak out of jail for scaling his sixth skyscraper, as he was finally caught- and arrested. During the trial, he finds that his mother called Josh, as a last resort, to help out. After the trial, he immediately left New York, except the destination was not where he thought he would be. Peak was expecting to land in Chiang Mai, but instead he was staying in a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand for the night. The next day, they left for Kathmandu (which Peak wasn’t informed of until a couple hours before the flight), which is where he learns that he is going to Mt. Everest. Yet, it’s bittersweet for Peak. It may be every climber's dream to climb Everest, but Peak also learns that the only reason he is doing this is to help his dad’s Josh’s business, also conveniently titled ‘Peak Experience’, with his debt by becoming the youngest person to ever go above 29,000 feet, and boosting his popularity for achieving this record. Josh also tells him that if he were older than 15, he most likely wouldn’t’ve bailed him, wouldn’t have taken him to Everest, and still would have nothing to do with

Despite his impressive record he had never attempted anything close to the scale of Everest, whose summit is at an extremely dangerous altitude. He even admits to his relative inexperience with high altitude saying, “Truth be told, I’d never been higher than 17,200 feet--not even as high as Everest Base Camp”(28). Krakauer also mentions how he has gotten out of shape over the years partially because of the lack of climbing in his life, making him even less prepared for the assent. Krakauer shows a definite fear of such a high mountain, referring to climbers who have perished in the past. He states that, “Many of those who died had been far stronger and possessed vastly more high-altitude experience than I.” (28). Even though Krakauer’s experience may be more relevant to the Everest assent than some of the other tourist climbers, it is nowhere near the level needed to be considered an elite climber.

Mount Everest at 29,000 feet is the world’s largest mountain making it one of the deadliest mountains in the world, and a young 14 boy named peak is about to climb it ! Roland Smith (born November 30, 1951) is an American author of young adult fiction as well as nonfiction books for children, (Roland smith wrote the novel Peak). Peak is brave, Peak has courage, Peak shows perseverance. Peak possesses respect.

Mount Everest is 29,092 feet tall. Imagine climbing this mountain with little to no experience. Would you survive? In the nonfiction novel Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer and his recruited crews try climbing this mountain. With many deaths along the way to the top, readers are quick to blame characters in the book. However, character stands out from the rest: Krakauer. In the book Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer is the most responsible for the other character’s deaths because he recruited and dragged along inexperienced mountain climbers, pushed them harder than they should’ve been pushed, and watched them suffer.

“You can never tell who the mountain will allow and who it will not.” The novel “Peak” by Roland Smith shows you the thrilling journey of climbing the tallest mountain in the world. Climbing a mountain for several months doesn’t just take physical strength, but also mental strength. The story takes you through Peak Marcello’s journey to become the youngest person in the world to climb Mt.Everest. “Peak” follows a theme of love, family, and most of all survival.

In the book “Into thin air” by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer sought to report and write about his climb up mount everest. He knew it wouldn't be easy, but he did not and could not have predicted the barriers and conflicts that were inflicted upon him, by the mountain and it’s atmosphere. Due to these barriers and conflicts, it would be naive to say that the main conflict wasn’t man vs nature. Nevertheless, Krakauer had the worst experience of his life, climbing and fighting against the physical and mental effects of Mount Everest.

Many people have dreamed of climbing the tallest mountain on earth, Mount Everest. However one must possess certain physical and mental attributes to accomplish this giant feat. “Courage is not having the strength to go on: it's going on when you don't have the strength.” Ed Viesturs knows first-hand what having courage is all about although you’ve used all your strength. He kept going to reach his goal even after he faced life threatening obstacles.

Have you ever wondered what kind of hardships come with climbing the tallest mountain in the world before? Expectantly, the book Peak by Roland Smith and the movie Everest have a lot of similarities with some exceptionally prominent differences. From personal conflict and character conflict to the general aspect of climbing Mt. Everest, the book and the movie explore all different types of similarities and differences. Being similar, in both the movie and the book, the mountain always decides. The morals were constant and everyone experiences the same deal in similar ways. One significant difference came between Peak, the main character in the book, and Rob(5th summit attempt), the main character in the movie.

In today’s society, all kids learn to read and write at young age, it’s very out of the ordinary to find an adult who doesn’t know how to read or write. During time of slavery it was not allowed for a slave to know how to read or write. In “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” by Frederick Douglass, you read about his life as a slave and the struggles he went though as he was learning to read and write, when most everyone was against a slave learning to read or write. During this time period the white people were supposed to be the only educated people. Slaves were the lowest class there was in the United States, no way no how was a slave allowed to get an education.

On May 10, 1996 six people died trying to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. These people were parts of two expeditions that were in the Himalayas, preparing to ascend the summit for six weeks. The first group was under the direction of Rob Hall, who had put 39 paying clients on the summit in five years. Hall was considered the leader of the mountain and the man to see no matter what the discrepancy. Group two, headed by Fisher, who like Hall, was trying to start a profitable business in providing the experience of climbing Mt. Everest to all for the price of 60 to 70 thousand dollars. Unfortunatly, neither man would live to tell the tale of this expedition.

Even though it is an exceedingly risky climb, he chose to attempt to conquer the mountain. Knowing the weather conditions could be unpredictable, he had to trust that his group of climbers would make the correct decisions. It takes courage to leave your fate to other people. His mother was very worried about him, she even said “People die up there Peak. You might die up there.” (Pg. 179) Peak could have died of HAPE, which stands for High-altitude pulmonary edema, meaning your lungs could not withhold the strain from the high altitudes, he could have been buried under snow from an avalanche, or killed from some other type of storm. Either way this would not stop Peak from following his

A Fall Before Rising by Jai Jaikumar is about a mountain climbing trip with Jai and his friend. They were suppose to turnaround and head back to high camp due to safety considerations but decided to continue climbing since they were not tired and they were also experienced. After reaching the mountain summit they began their descent - the cornice fell through, resulting in Jai and his companion to be separated on the other side of the slope. Jai fell on the snow in the Himalayas at close to 24,000 feet, and of the consequent 60-mile-per-hour ride down part of the side of the mountain losing nearly 3000 feet in altitude, and then a 24-hour trek through snow and ice apparently on a broken hip until he fell into the arms of a peasant woman