Mount Everest: Team Analysis

For the simulation, our group climbed Mount Everest. My role was the expedition leader. As the leader, I was the most experienced climber reaching the summit five separate times. My role was to guide all team members to the summit without needing rescue assistance. Unfortunately, I fell short of this goal with only three of the five team members reaching the summit. The environmentalist and the marathoner had to be rescued at summit. Based on initial research and assessment of the team I recognized that it was most important to protect the doctor to preserve the team. In this thinking, I failed to fairly assess that the marathoner was in peak shape but was horribly inexperienced. This resulted in his rescue.

On day one, we climbed to camp one. The marathoner closely predicted the …show more content…
We continue to camp three with everyone in mostly good health. Upon reaching camp three, the weather was very cold and team members begin to lose mental acuity and suffer from frostbite risk. The environmentalist was suffering from asthma, I instructed the doctor to administer an inhaler to her. We reached camp three, the environmentalist recovered and the team’s health has improved. This was a major win because otherwise the environmentalist may have needed to be rescued. On day four, we opted to stay at camp three to wait out the weather and give the teams failing health a rest. This is a major lesson learned. It was extremely cold and the team’s health did not improve. We should have continued to camp four and took the extra day before the summit.

On day five we made it to camp four. Although, I am leading the expedition we are making final decisions on when to continue and when to stay together as a