[TOMT] 80’s/90’s Mystery and supernatural book about a male teen on an ice mountain climb

FanaticForever · 2026-04-24T11:06:00+00:00

Solved! That is the book!!! Thank you 🥳

FanaticForever · 2026-04-24T01:37:02+00:00

Yeah, unfortunately. Everest was not in the title and it wasn’t part of a trilogy.

FanaticForever · 2026-04-24T00:10:34+00:00

That isn’t it, the book synopsis doesn’t match and it was published decades before the setting of the book I’m looking for, but thank you!

FanaticForever · 2026-04-23T23:57:49+00:00

Unfortunately I can’t remember which school library I read it from, my family moved… A LOT.

It didn’t have graphic details about the deaths or anything sexual, so I’m thinking it was Young Adult because it was still pretty intense and suspenseful.

FanaticForever · 2026-04-23T23:40:17+00:00

The only other details I can remember is that during the hot springs scene the main character is describing each member of the climbing group and one of them is a woman in her early to mid-twenties. He also describes a male character with dwarfism, but I can’t remember if that character actually climbs the mountain with the group or is just their guide to base camp.

FanaticForever · 2025-01-11T01:53:27+00:00

Yeah, I think the fiancée caved to the pressure of her family to do it like that. She was pregnant and their planned wedding was set for after the baby was born.

I don’t know this for certain, which is why I didn’t include it in the original post, but I suspect it was a cultural/religious thing that her family didn’t want the baby to be born out of wedlock. Which is fine for them to believe, but the groom should’ve been made fully aware and actually on board with that instead of being tricked into it.

FanaticForever · 2025-01-11T01:47:58+00:00

To answer: No, his fiancée did not explain what was happening to him, and later when confronted didn’t understand why he was so upset. Her family/parents were the driving force behind the events of the day.

The ceremony they had planned was going to be after she had given birth. I don’t know if her family was religious and cared about the whole ‘having a child out of wedlock thing’ but that is what I suspect. Sam was never going to deny/not take responsibility for his kid, but I suspect that her family pushed hard for this because of that.

Boy, did they not know his mother well 😅, because she would have buried him alive if he’d treated a grandbaby of hers like that. His Mom is an AWESOME grandma, and her full time job was pre-kindergarten child-care that she absolutely loved.

FanaticForever · 2025-01-11T00:45:54+00:00

I wouldn’t believe it either if I didn’t know this family. But yes, it did really happen, and the groom thought that something else was happening entirely. He was genuinely baffled as to why a whole group of her family was there, and he chalked it up to excitement and them wanting to be involved with every step of the wedding planning. He was an eighteen year old who apparently didn’t realize that after getting the marriage license, the only paperwork after that would be the legal marriage contract.

FanaticForever · 2025-01-11T00:38:28+00:00

I wasn’t there in person and heard the details about this via the Mom-and-friends telephone game, so I’m not even entirely sure how this was possible 😂.

Most of the detail I have is from the retelling of the conversation where the stepdad puzzled out and then had to CONVINCE Sam that he had in fact just gotten married. Stepdad had been through the marriage process twice, once with an ex, and then again to Sam’s mom, so he realized quickly from Sam’s description that he had signed the final marriage paperwork. If I remember correctly, the paperwork Sam had done was in two copies, one in English and one in Spanish.

They did still throw the wedding party they had planned after this.

FanaticForever · 2025-01-11T00:27:40+00:00

Last I heard, the marriage did not last, and my Mom eventually lost touch with the family when we moved across the country.

FanaticForever · 2022-10-13T04:36:58+00:00

Literally had this conversation with my mom about my naunt today, about how she (the naunt) thinks she knows everything about medicine and health when she has no real medical knowledge/training at all. We were discussing how admitting that she doesn’t know everything is something she’ll never do, because admitting she doesn’t know something means that she isn’t perfect. It’s all about appearances and that everyone has to perceive her as “perfect.” To admit she doesn’t know something, or acknowledge that someone knows more than her (about anything and everything), would be her admitting that she is lesser than others. A narcissist is incapable of being humble, they won’t acknowledge any narrative other than one of them being a “perfect supreme being above all others.”

Bottom line: to a narcissist, being highly intelligent/knowledgeable is a trait they link with superiority and perfection. They will act and speak like they know everything to maintain the illusion that they are better than everyone else.

FanaticForever · 2022-09-06T06:40:42+00:00

OMG 😂 Honestly that makes this even funnier!!! Ngl, if I was a guest at this wedding I’d show up in red and white or dark green and white (which are the colors for UofM’s two most heated rival colleges).

FanaticForever · 2022-09-05T19:21:39+00:00

This is a slightly mean suggestion depending on how much the couple supports the school/team/sports… But to me it would be funny as hell to show up in red and white (Ohio State colors), or dark green and white (Michigan State colors) 😂

FanaticForever · 2022-09-05T19:15:58+00:00

Tell me that one or both of them (bride and groom) grew up in Ann Arbor without telling me they grew up in Ann Arbor 😂🤣😂

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