How long does it take to read Peak?
Peak by Roland Smith takes about 4 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2007. 264 pages, about 72,600 words. Written for children.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
Subjects: Teenage boys, Survival, Fiction, Coming of age, Mountaineering, Juvenile fiction
