{"id":16905,"count":1,"description":"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).\nThe book is about 14-year-old Peak Marcello and his family. Peak is arrested for scaling the Woolworth Building in Manhattan, New York. 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.\nWhen 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 can receive more business for sending the youngest person to climb Everest\u2014enough money to retire. They fly to Nepal and meet a Buddhist monk, Zopa, and Sun-jo, a young Nepalese boy who is revealed to be climbing Mount Everest. It is later revealed that Sun...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/peak\/","name":"Peak","slug":"peak","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/16905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=16905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}