Peak

Since childhood, the fourteen -year -old peak of Marcello rave with climbing and height. The passion for conquering the heights in his blood, because the parents of the peak are climbers. But he is attracted not only by the mountains, and once the peak rises to the skyscraper ... Now he is facing a prison, and the only way out is to leave away. And the peak, along with his father, whom he has not seen for many years, goes to the Himalayas. The boy finds himself in a completely different world: a noisy and fussy catmand, in the Buddhist monastery, at the foot of beautiful snowy Himalayas. The terrible and, it seems, the unattainable top of Everest looms high above the head. But “peak” is not only an exciting adventure story about an rise to the highest mountain of the world, it is also a very honest story about the people who decided on it.

There is no romance in the conquest of Everest. Even at an altitude of several thousand meters, money, a thirst for glory, fear of death, rule everyone. Why should you climb to the top? In order to become famous, for the sake of wealth, freedom, for your family or for yourself? The peak was on the slope by accident, and he has no answer.

“In order to conquer the mountain, you need to think only about it and yourself,” - such advice gives the peak of the mother. But when you have a friend, when you have to risk your life every day and even save someone else’s, when during the blizzard you stay in the tent completely alone, you begin to separate the important from the unimportant.
As the peak recognized, “At the top of Everest, you can find only the divine beauty of the landscape, nothing more. And in order to find the most important thing in life, you do not need to climb so high at all. ” Will he be able to sacrifice everyone and become the youngest conqueror of Everest?
Roland Smith is the author of adventure books for adolescents. For more than twenty years, he worked as a zoo caretaker and traveled a lot, so in his books we often meet with real, then with fantastic animals, and heroes are either in Burma or Africa.
In 2007, “Pick” received the gold medal of the National Outdoor Book Award, and in 2008 the American Library Association chose “Peak” with the best book of the year in the “Young Adult” category