The Young Adventurer's Guide to Everest: From Avalanche to Zopkio
Tricycle Press, 2005

Book Review by Pooja Makhijani
From Kahani Fall 2009


This slim, photo-heavy nonfiction book by mountaineer and Antarctic guide, Jonathan Chester, offers readers an A to Z guide to climbing. Not only is The Young Adventurer’s Guide full of fun facts—the first woman to scale Mount Everest was Junko Tabei of Japan on May 16, 1975—but it is a practical guide to preparing for the 29,035-foot climb! Mr. Chester advises packing a baseball cap, toilet paper, and a car battery along with a list of more than 100 other items. This book will inform any reader and feed the young adventurers’ curiosity.