High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
by David Breashears
Nonfiction · 1050L · 320 pages · 1999
Why we'd hand it over
An adult mountaineering memoir with real stakes (death, injury, altitude sickness depicted plainly) — readable but not written for kids, and the fixation-with-danger framing may not model healthy risk calibration for younger readers.