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Adventure at the Bottom of the World, Adventure at the Top of the World

by Shelley Gill

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Eighty-eight-year-old explorer Norman Vaughan revisits the Queen Maude Mountains in Antarctica to climb the mountain named for him 65 years earlier by Admiral Richard E. Byrd; twelve-year-old adventurer Merrick Johnston becomes the youngest person ever to scale Denali, North America's highest peak.

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