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Peak is a 2007 young adult fiction novel by Roland Smith about the physical and emotional challenges that face a fourteen-year-old as he climbs Mount Everest as well as tall buildings in New York City after moving from Wyoming.
Dr. John McGowan gave the book a mostly positive review, writing that “Peak is clear, well-written, and easy to read. It is an accessible overview of Ericsson’s research and his theories of expert and peak performance with citations to scholarly papers and sources in the detailed end notes.”
Escape to Last Man Peak is a popular Jamaican novel written by Jamaican author Jean D'Costa.First published in 1975, it chronicles the adventure of ten orphans who embark on a dangerous journey across Jamaica in search of a new home, after a deadly pneumonia epidemic kills the caretakers of their orphanage and propels the country into a state of anarchy and desolation.
A reviewer of Publishers Weekly commented "Like Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer's bestselling chronicle of the same expedition, this account is a gripping account of the Mountain Madness group's bid to reach the top of the world's highest peak, one that combines Boukreev's firsthand recollections and DeWalt's interviews with team members.
It’s been three weeks since the general election polls closed on Nov. 5, and there are still three races for the U.S. House of Representatives that remain too close to call: two in California ...
The male humpback whale that traveled the longest documented distance to date is observed in Zanzibar Channel, off the village of Fumba on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, on August 22, 2022.
Monkey Peak (モンキーピーク, Monkīpīku) is a Japanese manga series written by Kōji Shinasaka and illustrated by Akihiro Kumeta. It was serialized in Nihon Bungeisha 's seinen manga magazine Weekly Manga Goraku from September 2016 to August 2019.
Marcel Reed threw two touchdown passes and ran for a third score in less than three quarters to help No. 15 Texas A&M cruise to a 38-3 win over New Mexico State on Saturday night. It was a bounce ...