Sunday, January 8, 2012
Peak
I read the book Peak. It is about a 14 year old boy climber whose dad wants to be the youngest person to climb Everest. However, Peak (the boy) meets Sunjo, who is older than Peak by a couple of days. This turns into a competition to climb Everest, but neither of the boys want to make it a competition. 10 feet away from the summit, Peak turns around and lets Sunjo go to the top. This shocked me so much. I can't imagine being so close to the top of the world, and turning around, saying, "maybe next year." How could you do that!? I think it would be amazing to get to the top of the world, and if I were Peak, I would have gone to the summit with Sunjo. However, the story is much more complicated than that, involving the Chinese police, father-son conflicts, and many, many deaths of other climbers. This book got very intense around the end, and it was so hard to put down, I read it in about 2 days. If you like intense, fast-moving books, this would be really good for you!
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Peak sounds like a really good book. I wonder what it would be like to be that close to being the youngest climber to climb Everst and then turn it down- it would be hard to imagine that. I also think I would be so scared to climb Everest at 14 because of how dangerous it was and how many people die trying to when they're way older than 14. It would be a really interesting and scary situation to be in.
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