Two at the Top: A Shared Dream of Everest

Published October 1, 2021

Groundwood Books

Illustrated by Christopher Corr

Summary

Tenzing Norgay grew up in Nepal, herding yaks in the shadow of Chomolungma, the mountain also known as Everest. Across the ocean, in New Zealand, Edmund Hillary grew up tending his father’s bees. He climbed his first mountain at sixteen.

In 1953, the two men set out on the same expedition to climb Everest. This remarkable true adventure story, told in a dual narrative, includes illustrated backmatter rich in geography, history, and science.

Reviews

Each sentence is beautifully crafted and a pleasure to read. Corr’s stylized, painterly illustrations burst with color and energy, wonderfully balancing the finely rendered text. A fitting celebration of the first pair of mountaineers to summit Everest. Kirkus Reviews (starred)

Each man’s story is given equal weight, which is refreshingly different from older accounts of that climb. School Library Journal (starred)

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