The Boy Who Dreamed Mount Everest

A ten-year old boy, Eli, loves to rock climb in Bubba’s indoor gym in Chicago.  He has never been on a real mountain, but fantasizes climbing Mount Everest.  He has studied books and web sites about Everest, memorized the popular Southern climbing route from Base Camp, and read about all the dangers.  He knows the youngest person to ever reach the summit was thirteen years old. 

Soon he starts dreaming about making an actual climb, as part of Bubba’s Kids’ Expedition:  Eli and his...