Meet Tilt Crowley

The others see adventure, challenge, and glory when they look at Mount Everest. Tilt sees only one thing.

Money.

What do a bunch of rich kids know about struggling through a triple paper route to pay for climbing gear? Slogging through blizzards in the winter and burning heat in the summer?

But the youngest mountaineer ever to conquer Everest won't need a job. He'll be a star. His face will grin cockily down from every cereal box on the planet.

Tilt can see that future, gleaming clear and true as the bright white of Everest's pinnacle. He can do it! Everest is big, but no bigger than the mountain of Tilt's attitude! There's only one problem.

What if someone summits who's even younger than he is?