Argumentative Essay On Alaska

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Alaska is so cold one would want to snuggle with a fat, and fluffy polar bear. Alaska as of being under the coldest weather is definitely dangerous for walking just on one’s two feet, alone, or in a pack of several men. One may think walking on just one’s two feet is bad enough… try walking up and down steep mountains on a slippery surface or perhaps even falling right through an avalanche. While trying not to fall drastically on ice, one will also have to try not getting killed by a vicious Alaskan animal on your journey through the frigid place called Alaska. The geography of Alaska makes it difficult to explore and settle both during the Klondike, Gold Rush, and today because of: walking on one's two feet throughout the travels, walking …show more content…
As one may know Alaska is extremely frigid for having to be at average of -30 to -70 degrees fahrenheit, Brrr. As asserted in the in the Alaska National Geographic video “Experiencing the sort of deep cold that we have in Alaska, you know it can be -30 to -70 degrees.” With that temperature an extreme condition of frostbite can happen to anyone with not supported shoes on one's expedition to/at Alaska. Hypothermia can plainly happen if one was there for the Klondike Gold Rush, when packs had to travel through the freezing cold water at critically low temperatures. For sure someone will be numb, with a kind of position like that. "Rather than wait for the ice to break up, thousands crossed the lake on foot to reach Lake Bennett.” As the text “The Continents are Klondike Crazy,” stated. As one can see the image of the group, someone can tell that there is only foot prints and no mark on the snow to show that something has been traveled with, which means everything has been on foot. Many Alaskans and out of staters have traveled in the freezing conditions of Alaska even on foot possibly facing these crazy conditions as the people during the Klondike Gold Rush did

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