Helicopter Rescues In J. R. Tolkien's The Lord The Rings

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings. This quote proves people will take risks, but they can easily mess up. People don’t have the right to rescue services when they put themselves at risk because they are overestimating their abilities. You can easily make mistakes. You also put yourself in danger when the person saving you is not. First, people shouldn’t have to die because you weren’t as skilled as you thought. In the second passage, “Why Everest?”, the author writes,”Nobody doubts their strength and fitness, but may not know enough about mountaineering and the hazard …show more content…
Heil in the passage, Helicopter Rescues Increasing on Everest, says,”You know, the skills that are required to operate these machines are quite significant and, you know, the margin for error is quite small.” ( Heil, Lines 71-73) Mistakes are easily done, but when you take a risk and you mess up you need to be rescued and id the flier makes a mistake you are likely going to die with the pilot. To climb a mountain you need tons of skills, but even then you can mess up, this will force helicopters to go save them and take a huge risk with no mistakes. In the Newspaper article, Ranger Killed During Rescue of Climber on Mount Rainier, it states, ”Nick Hall, a climbing ranger at Mount Rainier National Park, fell 3,700 feet to death Thursday afternoon, after helping rescue two climbers who had fallen into a crevasse, according to a park news release.”(The Seattle Times, Lines 4-6) It states that even though you are an expert like Nike Hall mistakes happen and that could backfire.This relates to the claim because the mistake he made was small but the result ended his life. Even if he is an expert it doesn’t mean he never messes up. Critics may say that usually people don’t mess up and don’t get anything. They are wrong because people do make mistakes, but mistakes you make can backfire on someone else and when you mess up you're still likely to get …show more content…
According to the text, Helicopter Rescues Increasing on Everest, Heil says,”And they got one climber off, and crashed attempting to rescue the second man.” (Heil, Lines 29-30) People who had not put themselves in danger have died to try to save someone who was putting themselves at risk for fun. This quote relates to the claim because people who work to get money on the table and have a family are killed trying to save someone that put their self to this risky task. In the passage, “Why Everest?”, Guy Moreau states, “A person cannot survive in this zone for more than two days because of the lack of oxygen and the extreme temperatures.” (Moreau, Lines 30-32) The quote means if anything were to go wrong, even if it is small, you risk your life well you are there, there are also so many people there that traffic jams start and you get stuck, leading to death. People put themselves at danger just so they can say that they can boast about having done something risky, then when you make a slip up you put your life and the life of the person saving you at risk when you have taken the risk. Critics may say that the rescue services are getting paid to do this. This is their job. This is true, it is their job, but if I was a daycare lady and there was a fire I have to try and save everyone in my job description, why should I die even if it is in my job