Jon Krakauer

In the passage, “The Last children in the Woods,” Richard Louv describes how times have changed since he was an adolescent boy. Louv argues that modern technology has caused the youth population to become disengaged with the world and instead engaged with their screens. Louv employs first person, vivid diction, emotional appeal and anecdote to convince the reader to stop the madness that technology has done to the world and instead look towards nature and a more simplistic life. Louv…

An uninhabited island somewhere warm would be a dream vacation for most people. A group of English boys stranded together were thinking the same thing. Trees to climb, water to play in, mountains to hike, and animals to kill; until everything went wrong. A rumor of a monster on the island gives the boys a real situation to test the 1932 quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. William Golding, author of “Lord of the Flies”, sets these boys in 1940’s war…

I have chosen to write about Bill Bryson and his experience in Sweden. Bill Bryson is a backpacker from Iowa who is famous for documenting his culture shock experiences in a humorous way. This time, he writes about Sweden in one of his pieces called “Neither Here Nor There” and in it he includes how Sweden is a country that is hard to understand. It is my firm belief that Sweden is not a country that is as hard to understand like Bill Bryson makes it seem as long as you have an open mind. In…

On May 10th 1996 A storm blew in to Mount Everest that none expected capturing the lives of 8 people and trapping 33 climbers. 19 of the 33 were trapped in the death zone with winds of 90mph. Many climbers were not thinking clearly and were suffering from frostbite. They all had to make the choice between selfless or selfish and it very important when you in this kind of critical situation like almost freezing to death on the face of a mountain. When you chose selfishness you are saving…

If one day, everybody disappeared from your life, and it was just you to survive, do you think you could? Well if not, how long do you think you could survive on your own? In the nail-biting novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, Brian finds himself on the ground in the Canadian Wilderness. After the plane crash, there was nobody around to help him. It was a miracle that he was saved after fifty-four gut-wrenching days. He struggled many times, but used the materials he had to somehow craft weapons and…

In the novel, Giants in the Earth, Rölvaag goes to great lengths to portray the total experience of what life was like for those daring enough to settle it and start over again in the unknown and unexplored regions of the great American prairies. He writes so that the reader can feel just how vast and open the land is as well as the (hardship) harshness of frontier life and the destructive effects it had on the settlers—both the strong and the weak. It is no surprise that isolation, loneliness,…

Appalachia is a culture within itself created by individuals looking to get away from a more structural environmnet set with rules and limits. The individuals who set out to move into the Appalachian Region did so in order to have more privacy and be left alone. The Appalachian Region gave protection to anyone wanting to be alone and live life his or her way. Unfortunately, those wanting to live this way were looked at as barbarick which created labels like poor and uneducated. Those outside the…

There was a guy who had never met his natural father in one village. He lived in peace. He often went out and adventured into forests or mountains with a friend of his as kids do out of their curiosity. His name is Riku. He spent most of time with the friend. His name is Heracles. He was so courageous and that he had beaten a great number of monsters that used to threaten people in their village. He was also well-known as a son of Zeus. His father was a son of Cronos and ruled as a king of gods.…

Ethical Decisions Essay Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world, and is a dream for many climbers everywhere in the world. However sometimes these dreams end up in catastrophe, much like what happened in 1996 to three teams on the mountain. Rob Hall’s Adventure Consultants team, Scott Fischer’s Mountain Madness, and the Taiwanese team led by Makalu Gau. There were 33 climbers split across those three teams attempting to summit on May 10th, 1996, of those, 19 climbers would be stuck…

Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North is a silent ethnographic documentary following a family of Inuits living in the Arctic Circle. Regarded by some as a turning point for documentaries, it serves as a ground for debate around representation and ethics of documentary film. In 1922 Flaherty set out to record the previously unseen lives of the Inuit in snowy Alaska as they struggle to survive in such a harsh environment. Flaherty spent 16 months living with Inuit where he staged sequences of them…