Peak begins with fourteen-year-old Peak Marcelo climbing the Woolworth Building in Manhattan. The police arrest him and put him in jail. As part of his probation and in an effort to thwart copycat climbers in New York City, Peak is sent to the Himalayas to live with his mountaineering dad. His father, whose expedition business trains teams to climb Mt. Everest, decides that Peak could be the youngest person to reach the peak. He assigns one of the Sherpa guides to get Peak acclimated to the altitude and prepare him for the trek. Peak befriends a Nepalese boy named Sun-Jo and discovers that life in the Himalayas is not as beautiful as it appears in photos.
This is a great adventure story with many twists and turns. The book explores several timely themes and subplots. Is this father/son relationship based on love or exploitation? Are the Sherpas helped or abused by the mountain climbing tourists? How difficult is the political situation for the Tibetans? Check it out and see.
Many of you may have read this book after our thrilling author visit with Roland Smith in the spring. Click here to see Roland Smith talk about writing.
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