TY - BOOK AU - Korman,Gordon TI - Everest : The Contest T2 - Everest SN - 0439401399 U1 - F KOR PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic KW - Survival KW - Fiction KW - Mountaineering KW - Contests KW - Adventure and adventurers KW - Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Large type books KW - Authors, Canadian KW - Canadian fiction KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Action & Adventure N1 - Interest level: Ages 8-12; RL: 4; This work in alternate format is reproduced with the permission of the Canadian Reprography Collection. The books are financed by the Ministry of Education, Ontario and are lent without charge to visually handicapped students. N2 - Who will be the youngest person ever to climb Mount Everest? It's the ultimate test of endurance and skill. The mountain has claimed the lives of many adults. Now kids are going to compete to break the record. Some are not ready for what they will face. And some will stop at nothing to reach the top. Dominic, Chris, Perry, Tilt, Sammi, Bryn, and Cameron compete with each other to be selected as part of a team of teenage climbers with the goal of ascending Mount Everest ER -