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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In 1992 friends Jim Davidson and Mike Price stood triumphantly atop Washington's Mount Rainier. But their conquest gave way to catastrophe when a cave-in plunged them deep inside a glacial crevasse -- the pitch-black, ice-walled hell that every climber's nightmares are made of -- Book jacket.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in the wilds of Washington State, Greenloop was once a model eco-community--until nature's wrath made it a tragic object lesson in civilization's fragility. Offering a glorious back-to-nature experience with all the comforts of high-speed Internet, solar smart houses, and the assurance of being mere hours from Seattle by highway, Greenloop was indeed a paradise--until Mount Rainier erupted, leaving its residents truly cut off from the world,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
8) Heart of ice
Author
Series
Nancy Drew Files volume 103
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Nancy and Ned travel to Washington for a week of skiing but spend their vacation solving a mystery that takes Nancy to the top of rugged Mount Rainier.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Learn surprising true facts about Mount Rainier National Park, including which plants and animals live there and how people are working to preserve the park.
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time there was a woman who embodied the secret fantasies of every woman of her time. She was a classic beauty, the daughter of a millionaire, an Academy Award-winning actress, and then, after she married Rainier of Monaco, a real-life princess.
12) Thin air
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A tragic accidnet, blizzad conditions, dangerous mountain terrain, and the only man who can help has become her worst enemy.
Author
Series
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"An ideal sanctuary and a dream come true-that's what Margaret Lane feels as she takes in God's gorgeous handiwork in Mount Rainer National Park. It's 1927 and the National Park Service is in its youth when Margie, an avid naturalist, lands a coveted position alongside the park rangers living and working in the unrivaled splendor of Mount Rainier's long shadow. But Chief Ranger Ford Brayden knows too well how awe-inspiring nature can quickly turn...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In June 1992, best friends Jim Davidson and Mike Price stood triumphantly atop Washington's Mount Rainier, celebrating what they hoped would be the first of many milestones in their lives as passionate young mountaineers. Instead, their conquest gave way to catastrophe when a cave-in plunged them deep inside a glacial crevasse--the pitch-black, ice-walled hell that every climber's nightmares are made of. At once a heart-stopping adventure story, a...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Millions of people around the world live in the shadow of active volcanoes. From Japan's Mount Fuji to the 'Sleeping Giant' submerged beneath Naples to the Yellowstone 'Supervolcano' in the United States, Nova travels with scientists who are attempting to discover how likely these volcanoes are to erupt, when it might happen, and exactly how deadly they could prove to be.
19) Mega disasters
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Asteroid apocalypse: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine how an impact on the American west coast could spell disaster for the nation. Atlantis apocalypse: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine how another eruption of the Santorini Volcano, like the one 3,500 years ago, could affect people today.
American volcano: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine what would happen if Mt. Rainier erupted like...