MOUNTAIN SURVIVAL 28 (Choose Your Own Adventure) [Mass Market Paperback]

Edward Packard (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Bantam (December 1, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553262521
• ISBN-13: 978-0553262520
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,921,024 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars You'll be lucky to get out alive from.. CANADA!, August 9, 2011

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P. Macpherson (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mountain Survival: Choose Your Own Adventure #28 (Paperback)

Mountain Survival (Choose Your Own Adventure #28) by Edward Packard is you, the narrator, crash landing in a small plane in the Canadian Rockies. You must not only set off from the crash site to find your way back to civilization but do it quickly because the plane's pilot has to stay behind and wait for you due to injury. I received this book as part of a lot CYOA books I bought and wasn't looking too forward to it. The premise sounded like the story might get repetitive but this is actually a solid entry into the series. You have to fight your way through freezing conditions, kidnappers, injuries, boulders, bears, pulmonary edemas (!), and pretty much anything else remote mountain-related you can think of (except for maybe mountain goats).

There are some good decisions that you must make based on knowledge you already have and/or something mentioned earlier in the book. One example of this is being asked if the direction you continue traveling will be keeping the sun to your left or to your right. I found there were many different ways to go about being saved, which was fun. Some pages have up to three options to choose from and sometimes the book tracks back in on itself instead of giving you entirely new adventures. It is only a 115 page book after all and I've found this author does that with most of his books. The only real problems I had were a few times your fate or those of others are never given in a few of the endings. There's one upbeat ending where you await certain help. But if you chose the other path you'll find that in fact the help you're expecting probably crashed! And other times it simply doesn't tell you what happened to the pilot or another boy you (might) run into in the wilderness.

My complaints are pretty minor and I had a good time with this one despite the premise not really appealing to me. This is helped by some great art from Leslie Morrel. It has a very gritty feel with lots of shading lines and realistic characters. Some of the best drawings in the series.

4.0 out of 5 stars What if YOU were stranded at the top of a mountain...., June 29, 2009

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Storyweaver Matt - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mountain Survival: Choose Your Own Adventure #28 (Paperback)

You have crashed landed at the top of a mountain in your broken airplane. Your friend has a broken leg and it is up to you to get help for him. But....these mountains are dangerous...they are freezing and have bears and kidnappers.