In May 1996 three expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Crowded conditions slowed their progress. Late in the day twenty-three men and women-including expedition leaders Scott Fischer and Rob Hall-were caught in a ferocious blizzard. Disoriented and out of oxygen, climbers struggled to find their way...

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in 57 hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, 20 other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours...

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How Christopher Johnson McCandless...

Dina Rubina is one of the few authors who continues to sell well in times of crisis. Her prose tends to speak to the reader like a real friend or sister - close and heartfelt. She seems to hug you while reading. The novel 'On the Upper Maslovka' has gone through many reprints and has been filmed.

The main thing is not to know, but to believe. Faith is higher than knowledge. Otherwise, why would God create such a complex Machaonine as man? Why stretch it through the years, through trials, through love? To then be thrown from the tree of life and trampled? And where do our tears, our happiness, our everyday work go? .. All my life I have been striving for something: love, fame, wealth....

New book by Victoria Tokareva. Gallery of new bright images. Drama and humor of new stories. A subtle perception of life - and at the same time a sober look at any situation. The mood of the new stories of the modern classic is a regret about the precariousness of human values. Especially today. And yet the author remains a romantic who believes and seems to know how to be...

The end of the world is coming to Moomin Valley! Somewhere far away in the impenetrable black Universe, a star with a flaming tail is moving - a comet - which is about to fall to Earth. And then it is not known what awaits all earthly inhabitants. Moomintroll and Sniff were told about this by their new friend Snufkin, whom they met on the way to the observatory (they went there to find out if...

Lovely young Carla Ponce, who lives in Peru, invites Nancy and her friends Bess and George to visit her and solve her 'monkey mystery,' which promises to lead to a fabulous treasure. A clue is carved on an intriguing wooden plaque that is so old, most of the crossword cipher is obliterated. When a notorious gang headed by El Gato (the Cat) steals the priceless relic, Nancy’s hopes of solving...

The novel is set between the years 1911 and 1954. The chapters are episodic and allow the reader to track the physical journeys and intellectual peregrinations of semi-fictionalized 'historical' characters such as Bertha Pappenheim, Baron Edmond de Rothsc