An anthology of prose writings about climbing on the world's two highest and best-known mountains, Everest and K2; featuring selections authored between 1933 and 1996.
Discusses nuclear energy, its source, how it works, and, giving the examples of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, how dangerous it can be when things go wrong.
An account of the worst disaster in the twenty-five-year history of United States space exploration, the loss of the shuttlecraft Challenger and its seven member crew.
The author describes how, at the age of eleven, he rescued his stepfather after an accident with farm machinery and how he helped to keep the farm running until his stepfather recovered nearly a year later.
Thirteen-year-old Phoebe recalls the death of her younger brother Mick in a bicycle accident, which might not have been fatal had he been wearing his helmet, and how she and her family reacted to the tragedy. Closes with an appeal to bikers to wear protective bicycle helmets.
