What really climbing Everest is
Many people believe that climbing the mountain Everest would consume a lot of physical strengths. It is absolutely true that it acquires a tremendous amount of strength. However, climbing the Everest need more than physical endurance. As reading through ‘Into Thin Air’, the prejudices of climbing the Everest had collapsed. Thinking about Everest, people need enough physical strength to endure all the pains during climbing, but the prerequisites of climbing were beyond that. For instance, due to high altitude and a deplete of supplemental oxygen, people get hallucinations and perceive reality into total different views, thus also mental strength and multiple other things are required. Mountaineering Everest is …show more content…
As the author mentioned about his judgements toward his teammates, “Of course for some Everesters myriad other, less virtuous, motives came into play, as well : minor celebrity, career advancement, ego massage, ordinary bragging rights, filthy lucre”, each climbers had different purposes of climbing the Everest. Some desired to go up there to enhance their life experience, having leisure of money, working purposes, and so on, but in all of those, a feeling the desperation of climbing Everest and determined to climb triumphantly would lead one to the goal. For example of someone who had the determination was Beck Weather. As previously mentioned about Beck, he had unusual hobby for a guy who was a doctor, but despite of the fact he was a doctor, Beck was an enthusiastic climber who Krakauer later respected Beck’s passion. Unfortunately, Beck and a japanese climber, Yasuko Namba, got abandoned due to their severe physical conditions. However, Beck had ironically arisen from unconsciousness and went back to the tent on his own, in fact that was the most shocking and unexpected scene on this book. According to Beck, he was unconscious for awhile and in some unknowable reason his inanimate brain floated back to consciousness, and mindless of his serious and deteriorated physical conditions, he arose from the death and walked back to the tent like he has just been awakened on the bed. If he merely acknowledged the fact his hopelessness of getting back to consciousness and had worthless purpose of climbing, the story would be different. Because he was determined enough, he was able to make the miracle. Furthermore, Beck Weather had worse physical conditions than Yasuko Namba, but the one who came back alive was Beck. Consequently, a consequence depends on how one thinks about
Many people believe that climbing the mountain Everest would consume a lot of physical strengths. It is absolutely true that it acquires a tremendous amount of strength. However, climbing the Everest need more than physical endurance. As reading through ‘Into Thin Air’, the prejudices of climbing the Everest had collapsed. Thinking about Everest, people need enough physical strength to endure all the pains during climbing, but the prerequisites of climbing were beyond that. For instance, due to high altitude and a deplete of supplemental oxygen, people get hallucinations and perceive reality into total different views, thus also mental strength and multiple other things are required. Mountaineering Everest is …show more content…
As the author mentioned about his judgements toward his teammates, “Of course for some Everesters myriad other, less virtuous, motives came into play, as well : minor celebrity, career advancement, ego massage, ordinary bragging rights, filthy lucre”, each climbers had different purposes of climbing the Everest. Some desired to go up there to enhance their life experience, having leisure of money, working purposes, and so on, but in all of those, a feeling the desperation of climbing Everest and determined to climb triumphantly would lead one to the goal. For example of someone who had the determination was Beck Weather. As previously mentioned about Beck, he had unusual hobby for a guy who was a doctor, but despite of the fact he was a doctor, Beck was an enthusiastic climber who Krakauer later respected Beck’s passion. Unfortunately, Beck and a japanese climber, Yasuko Namba, got abandoned due to their severe physical conditions. However, Beck had ironically arisen from unconsciousness and went back to the tent on his own, in fact that was the most shocking and unexpected scene on this book. According to Beck, he was unconscious for awhile and in some unknowable reason his inanimate brain floated back to consciousness, and mindless of his serious and deteriorated physical conditions, he arose from the death and walked back to the tent like he has just been awakened on the bed. If he merely acknowledged the fact his hopelessness of getting back to consciousness and had worthless purpose of climbing, the story would be different. Because he was determined enough, he was able to make the miracle. Furthermore, Beck Weather had worse physical conditions than Yasuko Namba, but the one who came back alive was Beck. Consequently, a consequence depends on how one thinks about