Peak is a children’s novel by Roland Smith concerning the physical and emotional challenges that face a fourteen-year-old boy as he climbs Mount Everest. It was first published in 2007. Peak won the 2007 National Outdoor Book Award (Children’s Category).
The book is about a 14-year-old boy named Peak Marcello and his family. Peak is arrested for scaling the Woolworth Building in Manhattan, New York and spraypainting 3 blue mountains on the top. While in the court room, the judge decides to let Peak go on one requirement – he must go with his father out of the country to Tibet.
When Peak Marcello and Joshua Wood, his biological father, a famous mountaineer, go to Thailand, Peak is subject to a physical. Josh then reveals that they are going to climb Everest so that Josh’s climbing company called ” Peak experience ” can receive more business for sending the youngest person to climb Everest—enough money to retire. They fly to Nepal and meet a Buddhist monk, Zopa, and Sun-jo, a young…