Product Description
There are places in the world so remote, that if you get lost, you may never be found. Olive, Ted, Knox, Birdie and Silas enter a challenge to survive in the wild, without technology. Their stage? The majestic Blue Mountains. Working as a team, they must read maps, build fires, camp and trek through the most dangerous of terrain, in subzero temperatures. But when the teenagers are split over a decision to climb a dangerous rock, disaster strikes. And in their quest for survival, one of them makes an unforgivable choice. With catastrophic consequences. Nobody is blameless. And they may not all make it home. But those who do, may never forgive each other.
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adventure, suspense, friendship, romance, history, survival, Blue Mountains, wilderness
Silas, Knox, Birdie, Olive and Ted enter into a competition in the Blue Mountains to prove that teenagers can survive, should the world of technology end tomorrow. Each are assigned a crucial role in the team and must work together to make it to the finish line and win the prize of a trip to Mt Everest Base Camp. The adventure soon turns into a fight for survival after a disagreement and a deviation from the plan. Everyone plays a part in the disaster and must work together to get out alive. A tense, exciting tale of survival in the Australian Blue Mountains for young adult readers who enjoy stories with historical detail.
