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Summiting Everest : how a photograph celebrates teamwork at the top of the world / by Emma Carlson Berne.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Captured historyPublisher: North Mankato, Minnesota : Capstone Compass Point Books, 2014Description: 64 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0756547342 (library binding)
  • 0756547903 (pbk.)
  • 9780756547349 (library binding)
  • 9780756547905 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Summary: Discusses team photographer Alfred Gregory's pictures of the May 1953 expedition during which he captured Hillary and Norgay, with the imposing Himalayas spread out behind them, as they neared the summit of Mount Everest.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 796.522 B525 Available 33111007539915
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The summit of Mount Everest the highest place on Earth. Could it be conquered? Could a climber literally stand on top of the world? No one had ever reached the summit and returned alive. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay wanted to be the first. Not far from the top, before their final hours of climbing, team photographer Alfred Gregory snapped a picture of Hillary and Norgay, with the imposing Himalayas spread out behind them. It was the highest photograph anyone in human history had ever taken. With a click of his camera shutter in May 1953, Gregory opened up a hidden world for the rest of humanity to share.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Discusses team photographer Alfred Gregory's pictures of the May 1953 expedition during which he captured Hillary and Norgay, with the imposing Himalayas spread out behind them, as they neared the summit of Mount Everest.

10-14.

Grades 4 to 6.

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