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    Since 1953, more than 250 people have died trying to reach the summit. But the most dangerous part of climbing Mount Everest is not trying to reach the summit — it’s trying to get back down. All three deaths occurred on the descent. After Jon Krakauer, wrote the bestseller, Into Thin Air, detailing his harrowing experience on Mount Everest, in which, only…

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    If a climber decides to make an early descent from Everest or stops climbing and waits for help, the climber often makes the right choice. For example, as Jon made his descent from the summit, he came across his teammate Beck, who was sitting down. When Jon asked Beck what he was doing, Beck said that he had trouble with…

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    that we face, both mentally and physically in life. After reading, “Into Thin Air,” written by Jon Krakauer, he shares his, along with others experiences of climbing Mount Everest. During this journey, climbers had to mentally and physically prepare themselves for any obstacles that headed their way. Krakauer, in particular, had prior climbing experience, but wasn’t as experience in higher altitudes such as Everest. Unfortunately, some climbers didn’t make it out alive. Meanwhile, many were left…

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    The Deep Movie Analysis

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    Efficient Icelandic director, Baltasar Kormakur, returns to the cinematic recreations of dramatic real-life events after the accomplished “The Deep”, dated from two years ago. Right after the latter, he made an incursion into the action-crime fictional genre with the uninvolving “Two Guns”, starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg. “Everest”, an account of the tragedy occurred in the famous Nepalese mountain in the spring of 1996, also presents a strong cast, including Jason Clarke, Jake…

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    Climbing Mt. Everest isn't easy . Many people have tried and have failed. Reaching a goal for some people becomes a lifelong journey. People are also leaving things that they don't want to carry down, on the mountain, so that it's looking like a big garbage pile. Climbing Mt. Everest would give a person a feeling of accomplishment and knowing that they did something not many other people in the world get to do or would be able to do. You have to be in shape physically and be as prepared as…

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    Climbing Mount Everest

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    Katelyne: Unit 1 Performance Task For many years and more to come, climbing Mount Everest has been such a great achievement for many climbers. Though, they may not always make it to the top, they are just happy that they got to witness the wonderful views and icy scenery. But, do they really? Are the views of the mountain breathtaking or garbage filled? To some climbers the scenery doesn’t matter, it just getting to the top that counts, but what about the mountain itself? As snow should always…

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    Jaid Character Analysis

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    Jaid is an interesting little guy. I feel like he is in the serious and shy type. He does not smile about everything, but he is always happy. Most of the time he is more in the serious side. He looks like analyzed everything and he does not take everything for granted. I observed his eyes and he got this deep look. He is like always thinking about his next step. For instance, this past Sunday he was particular extra happy, I asked him the reason that he is so happy. He started to talk to me like…

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    Climbing mountains could be thrilling and a whole lot of fun, but think about when people put themselves and others at risk. People should not rescue people when they put themselves at risk because it is too dangerous, it puts both sides at risk, and false preparation Climbers are putting themselves and the rescuer’s lives at risk, so it creates a bigger problem and more people could end up getting severely injured or it could even result to death. In source 3 “Ranger Killed During Rescue of…

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    I would say climbing Mount Everest is a bad idea say that because climbers have a high chance catching a deadly disease and death.This disease is called AMS(Acute Mountain Sickness).It is caused by reduced air pressure and lower oxygen levels at high altitudes.Most likely to happen if you climb too fast to a high altitude you would get it but to be able to climb mount everest you have to have the right gear and enough oxygen tanks. “180+ have climbed and quickly died”.(p.420)So you…

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    North Face Film Analysis

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    who climb up the North Face, therefore, Toni, Andi and two Australians (Willi & Edi) decide to climb up the North Face. In the beginning of the climbing they are competitors. However, as the time passes on they decide to climb together because Willi get injured with his leg when he haunt during the climb and there is a storm going on when they were climbing. This events is happened at switzerland during 1936. This movie is based on a real historical events. During the movie, when the bodies…

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