Peak Marcello is fourteen years old and like most fourteen year old boys (that I have encountered) he is kinda dumb. He has been climbing skyscrapers in New York City because I guess he is bored. He gets busted after climbing one of them and is given a choice..go to Juvenile Detention or go live with his dad. Peak doesn't really have the typical type of parents..back in the day his mom and dad were known as rock rats..they would climb any mountain. Mom calmed down after she broke her back climbing and went on to settle down and have Peak a couple of sisters. But Dad? He now has started his own adventure expedition company.
Guess what's up next on Dad's agenda?



Oh heck yes! I'm have weird fascinations with several things and that dang Mt. Everest is one of them. I'll read anything featuring that mountain or sit through any movie/documentary or whatever.
Anyways...
Dad surprises Peak with the fact that he is going to be the youngest to summit Everest. He doesn't really ask..it's more a tell situation.
Peak has never had a close relationship with his dad due to the fact that he wasn't a mountain so their relationship has always been strained. Then when he gets to the mountain base camp thinking he is going to go with his dad he realizes that he is living in a dream world. His climbing companion is to be an old monk who used to be a Sherpa and a young boy.

Now let's talk about how good this was. The author does an amaze balls job with how scary that damn mountain is. (Including that elusive 'death zone' where every minute you spend in it is your body dying.)


He even talks about the dead bodies on it. I expected a young adult book to gloss over those.


I need to buy a copy of this one to make convince the boy child to read. It's got all the good stuff: No lurrrve story, great writing, quick paced and there is a real heartwarming part for the people that have feelings.
And best of all????
Everest for the ones of us that are fascinated but no there is no way in hello that we'd ever do it.


Booksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.