In Vancouver, an earth science firm announces the ability to replicate every known mineral on the planet. In Switzerland, a seismologist notes a disconcerting anomaly seventy miles below the Earth's crust. In Nepal, the world's highest mountain is growing. World renowned geophysicist James Von Kamburg leads a crack team of scientists to the Himalayas to decipher an escalating series of portentous signs: frozen glaciers are melting, plants spawn from rock, and leopards move in herds. As science begins to bend with impossibilities, Von Kamburg searches desperately for answers. Jared Griffon, Von Kamburg's brilliant former student turned adversary, arrives in Nepal with his own plans to engage the cataclysm. Everest is rising. Is it the end, or a new kind of beginning...
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Matt Kambic spent his formative years as a science-fiction and fantasy preoccupied youth in the city where he was born, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2013, he moved to New Zealand and finished his first book, Everest Rising. Published by ScienceThriller Media out of California, the novel won two awards, including the New Zealand Mountain Book & Film Festival award for Best Fiction. Matt has since illustrated The Walking Stick's Story (written by Alison Annals), co-written The Last Voyage of the S.S. Panglossian (with Matt Kennedy), and written and directed a stage play for theatre, The Sherpa & the Beekeeper ~ Summit on Everest. He recently completed another play, Ultraviolet Blackbody Catastrophe, about quantum physics. His latest book, a small bite out of Eternity ~ the Square Miracles, will be published in 2025.
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