title: National Geographic Kids Chapters: Danger on the Mountain: True Stories of Extreme Adventures! (NGK Chapters)
author: Gregg Treinish
description: GREGG TREINISH founded Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation, a nonprofit organization connecting outdoor adventurers with scientists in need of data from the field. He also organizes his own expeditions, contributing to research on wildlife-human interaction, fragmented habitats, and threatened species.
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  H. P. LOVECRAFT
  
  
  # COLLECTION
  
  
  
  
  
  AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER I
  
  
  CHAPTER II
  
  
  CHAPTER III
  
  
  CHAPTER IV
  
  
  CHAPTER V
  
  
  [CHAPTER VI](AT_THE_MOUNTAINS_OF_MADNESS_split_002.html#filepos182820)
  
  
  [CHAPTER VII](AT_THE_MOUNTAINS_OF_MADNESS_split_002.html#filepos203373)
  
  
  [CHAPTER VIII](AT_THE_MOUNTAINS_OF_MADNESS_split_002.html#filepos230782)
  
  
  [CHAPTER IX](AT_THE_MOUNTAINS_OF_MADNESS_split_002.html#filepos255243)
  
  
  [CHAPTER X](AT_THE_MOUNTAINS_OF_MADNESS_split_002.html#filepos286239)
  
  
  [CHAPTER XI](AT_THE_MOUNTAINS_OF_MADNESS_split_002.html#filepos307291)
  
  
  [CHAPTER XII](AT_THE_MOUNTAINS_OF_MADNESS_split_002.html#filepos334131)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER I
  
  
  I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my
  advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my
  reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the Antarctic - with its
  vast fossil hunt and its wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice caps.
  And I am the more relucta