Climbing Mount Everest Research Paper

Climbing Mount Everest is a bad idea because the climbers are causing deforestation. According to the textbook, Geography Alive! Regions and People, it states that “More trees may have been cut to provide fuel for cooking and heating for tourists.”(pg. 422) This is shown in Chapter 20 in Peak by Roland Smith the crew, Peak and his friends, are making there way up to Camp Four and Zopa says,” Get your stoves ready… I know you are not hungry, but you have to eat and drink.” (pg.162) This illustrates that climbers have to guess when they have to eat because they don’t know when they’re hungry or thirsty. This would sometimes result on some climbers eating extra meals which means more wood is being used up per day. There are hundreds of people on …show more content…
For instance, in the textbook it states,”If climbers didn’t acclimatize , they would risk getting ill from the lack of oxygen at high elevations.(pg. 420) The author in Peak describes that a few characters, Josh, Leah, and Francis, were stuck somewhere on the Mountain so Francis was put in a gamow bag to keep from getting altitude sickness after being rescued a few hours later Francis still got altitude sickness.(pg. 104) This can be interpreted to mean that not only does the lack of oxygen affect you at certain heights but the altitude in general. A gamow bag is used for someone to in the bag and someone pumps air into the bag until it matches with the oxygen levels at sea level. Also, in Chapter 27 in Peak the character Peak states,” The two liters of oxygen didn’t stimulate sea level; it simply allowed me to stay alive above 25,000 feet.”(pg. 219) This also supports the idea that the altitude can also affect the climber negatively like the levels of oxygen. To conclude, being on Mount Everest in general will probably kill you because being at high altitudes makes you feel like you can’t