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* ScalingTheSummit: The series focuses on a team of climbers training for an ascent of Mount Everest.
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* BigBrotherWorship: Dominic idolizes his older brother Chris (who has already climbed with Ethan Zaph before) and is determined to climb Mount Everest alongside of Chris.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Plump Sherpa Babu is a tireless worker who can move at amazing speeds in a crisis.
* BigBrotherWorship: Dominic Alexis idolizes his older brother Chris (who has already climbed with Ethan Zaph before) and is determined to climb Mount Everest alongside of Chris.
* BigBrotherWorship: Dominic Alexis idolizes his older brother Chris (who has already climbed with Ethan Zaph before) and is determined to climb Mount Everest alongside of Chris.
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* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Sammi is constantly zoned out listening to rock-and-roll on her Walkman, which once causes her to not realize that an avalanche has breezed through the base camp until several minutes later.
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* WhatAPieceOfJunk: In Book 2, the expedition briefly travels in a UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar surplus helicopter with visible duct tape repairs. Contrary to Tilt's snide prediction, it does actually manage to lift off and take them to their destination.
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* ThereWasADoor: Mrs. Alexis is annoyed at how her mountaineer husband and sons like to climb out second-floor windows to reach the ground rather than going down the stairs and out the door.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Perry is a well-done nephew guy, as he feels unqualified to climb Mount Everest (an opinion many of the people he is competing alongside of share) and is terrified of the mountain, but he is convinced that his famous climber CoolUncle would never understand if he quit, and so he perseveres throughout training and beyond. [[spoiler: Surprisingly, his uncle is completely understanding and sympathetic once he learns how Perry feels, but by then, now that he feels like he has a choice, Perry has decided he wants to see the expedition through.]]
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Perry is a well-done nephew guy, as he feels unqualified to climb Mount Everest (an opinion many of the people he is competing alongside of share) and is terrified of the mountain, but he is convinced that his famous climber and climbing-obsessed CoolUncle would never understand if he quit, and so he perseveres throughout training and beyond. [[spoiler: Surprisingly, his uncle is completely understanding and sympathetic once he learns how Perry feels, but by then, now that he feels like he has a choice, Perry has decided he wants to see the expedition through.]]
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Perry is a well-done nephew guy, as he feels unqualified to climb Mount Everest (an opinion many of the people he is competing alongside of share) and is terrified of the mountain, but he is convinced that his famous climber CoolUncle would never understand if he quit, and so he perseveres throughout training and beyond. [[spoiler: Surprisingly, his uncle is completely understanding and sympathetic once he learns how Perry feels, but by then, now that he feels like he has a choice, Perry has decided he wants to see the expedition through.]]]]
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Ethan Zaph decides to quit the expedition in favor of a different climbing trip right after his teammates have been picked, leading to the team being restructured and several main characters who were being sent home to be selected for the climb after all.
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The ''Everest Trilogy'' (''The Contest, The Climb,'' and ''The Summit'') is a 2002 Creator/GordonKorman MiddleGradeLiterature series. The trilogy starts by following young climbers undergoing TrainingFromHell to qualify for three places in a corporate-sponsored expedition to climb Mount Everest with Ethan Zaph, the youngest person to climb Mount Everest to date. The next two books cover the climb, with plenty of things turning out unexpectedly. While the climbers are a RagtagBunchOfMisfits, the trilogy is among Korman's more serious work, with lots of ShownTheirWork details about the mechanics and dangers of mountain climbing, family drama, and [[TonightSomeoneDies the prologue of the first book making it clear that one of the kids will die on the mountain.]]
!!Tropes in the trilogy:
* BigBrotherWorship: Dominic idolizes his older brother Chris (who has already climbed with Ethan Zaph before) and is determined to climb Mount Everest alongside of Chris.
* DwindlingParty: Throughout the first book, every few days, a few more kids are singled out as being at the bottom of the pack and cut from the training contest, their dreams of climbing Mount Everest crushed. A few others are sent home for medical reasons, such as [[spoiler:Cameron and Bryn]], who both break a few bones in bad falls, and [[spoiler:Joey]], who is discovered to have nasal passages that are too narrow for safe breathing at high altitudes.
* TheMole: Someone involved in the contest and expedition is feeding embarrassing stories to a tabloid paper. [[spoiler:It's Tilt Crowley, who initially does it because it is the only way for a boy as poor as him to buy good climbing gear, but then does it to undermine his rival Dominic.]]
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Bryn and Sammy hope to both make the team and do the climb together. [[spoiler:They succeed, but Bryn is then injured and replaced by Tilt]].
* SpannerInTheWorks: Ethan Zaph decides to quit the expedition in favor of a different climbing trip right after his teammates have been picked, leading to the team being restructured and several main characters who were being sent home to be selected for the climb after all.
* TooDumbToLive: The adults express this opinion in a horrified and angry fashion after learning that Bryn sleepwalks and never told anyone but Sammy, even though they are going on a mountain climbing trip and will be sleeping near lots of cliff faces. [[spoiler:They are right to feel this way, since Bryn does walk off a cliff and is lucky to survive.]]
* TreacheryCoverUp: In the third book, Cap learns that [[spoiler:Tilt Crowley has been spying on the expedition for a tabloid magazine and tried to sabotage Dominic to make him turn back so that Tilt would be the youngest person to make the summit. However, Cap keeps this secret after a remorseful Tilt [[RedemptionEqualsDeath dies while trying to rescue Dominic]].]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Perry is a well-done nephew guy, as he feels unqualified to climb Mount Everest (an opinion many of the people he is competing alongside of share) and is terrified of the mountain, but he is convinced that his famous climber CoolUncle would never understand if he quit, and so he perseveres throughout training and beyond. [[spoiler: Surprisingly, his uncle is completely understanding and sympathetic once he learns how Perry feels, but by then, now that he feels like he has a choice, Perry has decided he wants to see the expedition through.]]
!!Tropes in the trilogy:
* BigBrotherWorship: Dominic idolizes his older brother Chris (who has already climbed with Ethan Zaph before) and is determined to climb Mount Everest alongside of Chris.
* DwindlingParty: Throughout the first book, every few days, a few more kids are singled out as being at the bottom of the pack and cut from the training contest, their dreams of climbing Mount Everest crushed. A few others are sent home for medical reasons, such as [[spoiler:Cameron and Bryn]], who both break a few bones in bad falls, and [[spoiler:Joey]], who is discovered to have nasal passages that are too narrow for safe breathing at high altitudes.
* TheMole: Someone involved in the contest and expedition is feeding embarrassing stories to a tabloid paper. [[spoiler:It's Tilt Crowley, who initially does it because it is the only way for a boy as poor as him to buy good climbing gear, but then does it to undermine his rival Dominic.]]
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Bryn and Sammy hope to both make the team and do the climb together. [[spoiler:They succeed, but Bryn is then injured and replaced by Tilt]].
* SpannerInTheWorks: Ethan Zaph decides to quit the expedition in favor of a different climbing trip right after his teammates have been picked, leading to the team being restructured and several main characters who were being sent home to be selected for the climb after all.
* TooDumbToLive: The adults express this opinion in a horrified and angry fashion after learning that Bryn sleepwalks and never told anyone but Sammy, even though they are going on a mountain climbing trip and will be sleeping near lots of cliff faces. [[spoiler:They are right to feel this way, since Bryn does walk off a cliff and is lucky to survive.]]
* TreacheryCoverUp: In the third book, Cap learns that [[spoiler:Tilt Crowley has been spying on the expedition for a tabloid magazine and tried to sabotage Dominic to make him turn back so that Tilt would be the youngest person to make the summit. However, Cap keeps this secret after a remorseful Tilt [[RedemptionEqualsDeath dies while trying to rescue Dominic]].]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Perry is a well-done nephew guy, as he feels unqualified to climb Mount Everest (an opinion many of the people he is competing alongside of share) and is terrified of the mountain, but he is convinced that his famous climber CoolUncle would never understand if he quit, and so he perseveres throughout training and beyond. [[spoiler: Surprisingly, his uncle is completely understanding and sympathetic once he learns how Perry feels, but by then, now that he feels like he has a choice, Perry has decided he wants to see the expedition through.]]
