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    Try at your own risk, is a sign that people should read whenever they chose to do dangerous activities. Mountain climbing is one of the activities that can put people at risk of danger and needing to be rescued. When things go wrong a rescue team needs to come and save them from whatever danger they are in. People should not have the right to rescue services when they put themselves at risk because the rescue workers trying to save them can be hurt or killed, it is very expensive to rescue…

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    The ascend up and down a hill are difficult to accomplish, but imagine climbing the tallest in the world. Russell Brice has done that multiple times, and survived. Russell Brice is probably the best known mountain guide in the world. He has reinvented the way mountain guides work at Mt Everest, been a successful mountaineer, and also a successful movie star. Russell Reginald Brice was born in 1952 in New Zealand, and since he was a child, he was always fascinated with ice and snow. Brice first…

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    In the book 'Into Thin Air', by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer tells his tale of climbing the tallest mountain in the world, Mt. Everest. He was given this opportunity by Outside Magazine which he worked for. At first he was just supposed to write an article about the commercialism on the massive mountain. He later decides he actually wants to climb it. Little did Krakauer know he was about to take on the most disastrous trip up Everest ever. There was a large amount of money that needed to be paid to…

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    Mandelbaum states, “a clear division remains between the westerners who climb everest and the Sherpas who guide them-lugging their gear and clearing a pathway up the mountain.”. Further on in the article it says, “While Sherpas continue to carry typical climbing gear, including tents and…

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    In 1996 mount Everest made its mark on history again with yet another large disaster. The night of May 10 eight climbers lost their lives to Everest in a 12 hour period. With a total of 12 deaths in total that month. At the end of april 1996 three expeditions set out to summit Everest with a total of 33 climbers on the mountain, on may 10 nineteen climbers were trapped in the death zone (above 8 000 meters) that night of May tenth. In extreme cases like the ‘96 disaster people are presented with…

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    Mount Everest Survival

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    and even orphans who have lost their husbands and fathers on Everest (Marrow 14). Those who have died on the mountain leave their families with no money to support them, and without the government’s help, these families will soon perish as well. Climbing Mount Everest is no easy feat, and Sherpas are well aware of this which is why they get paid to haul other people’s weight up the mountain. If it were not for the Sherpas, a majority of famous Everest climbers would have died. In Billie…

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    Zealand. He was born on July 20, 1919.Edmund Hillary, discovered his love towards snow in the age of 16 when he was taken to Mount Ruapehu in Tongariro National Park as a school trip. After the completion of high school, he continued his interest by climbing the another peak Mount Olivier in New Zealand’s Southern Alps at the age of…

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    by the storm, and still managed to end up saving two of the three climbers that were almost frozen to death or already dead. My second reason is that he is a very experienced climber and has been doing it for many years. He has been high altitude climbing for over 20 years. He has summited everest 3 times and each time was without oxygen. This means that he knows what choices…

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    Into Thin Air Literary Analysis Everest will devour all in its icy crevasses and leave one’s thoughts twisted, questioning why they came there in the first place. Into Thin Air, a journalistic view novel by Jon Krakauer, tells of the May 1996 tempest that ominously shadowed Everest, leaving all on the summit oblivious as the storm’s winds growl from a short distance below them. On May 11th when the storm attacked at its full strength, it would leave eight people dying during their summit attempt…

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    Even though it is easier for people to climb Everest now than it was many years ago, people still have the possibility of dying. You have to wait for storms to abate, a possibility of getting high altitude cerebral edema/high altitude pulmonary edema, hypothermia, and other dangerous events. Even Sherpas are more in danger than they ever have been due to the many things they have to carry such as, bottled oxygen and medical supplies. Which can also add to the slovenly state of the camp sights,…

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