Can You Survive Extreme Mountain Climbing?: An Interactive Survival Adventure

by Matt Doeden

Overview

YOU are an experienced mountain climber. Your goal is to reach the top of the world's highest and most dangerous mountains. Will you attempt to: Scale Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro? or Climb the Matterhorn in Europe? or Reach the top of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest? Experience the life-or-death dilemmas of places few people ever see. YOU CHOOSE what you'll do next. The choices you make will either lead you to safety or to doom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476500638
Publisher:	Capstone Press
Publication date:	07/01/2012
Series:	You Choose: Survival Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	24 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Matt Doeden is a freelance author and editor from Minnesota. He’s written numerous children’s books on sports, music, current events, the military, extreme survival, and much more. His books Sandy Koufax (Twenty-First Century Books, 2006) and Tom Brady: Unlikely Champion (Twenty-First Century Books, 2011) were Junior Library Guild selections. Doeden began his career as a sports writer before turning to publishing. He lives in Minnesota with his wife and two children.

Editorial Reviews

You are a mountain climber about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime; this exploration gives you the opportunity to climb three of the Seven Summits: Mt. Kilimanjaro, the Matterhorn, and Mt. Everest. With 43 choices and 19 endings to select, and a plethora of stock photos to create a sense of reality, your explorations are endless. Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro? You and your cousin Mike have two routes to choose from as Prisca guides you through the tropical zone of Tanzania. How about the Matterhorn? Uncle Jack will buddy up with you as you ascend to Hornli Hut before you begin your 10-hour climb. And lastly, your ultimate challenge: Mt. Everest. You decide that the best way to tackle this feat is to hire Tashi, a local guide, and several porters for your three friends. Whatever path you take, there will be unexpected situations; however, all the choices are yours to make. This is another in the set of "You Choose Books," replete with a little of everything for your interactive survival adventure: history, information on real survivors, a self-check survival quiz, a book list for further reading, Internet sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. A fun way to build cognitive skills and learn some rally cool stuff at the same time, this book and the entire series will keep teens amused for hours! Reviewer: Anita Lock

Children's Literature - Anita Lock