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In Asia, there is a place called the Himalayas. In the himalayas, you can find the highest mountain in the world. It is called Mount Everest. It height is 29 035 feet, 8848 meters high. Everest is located in the border of Nepal to the south and China or Tibet on the north. It was formed 60 million years ago by the movement of the Indian tectonic plate pushing up and against the Asian plate. Its height increases 0.25 inches every year. The wind can blow over 200 miles per hour and the temperature…

Mount Vesuvius – Italy Hypothesis: The impact of active volcanoes overlooking settlements pose as huge threats. With eruptions of volcanoes comes mud, ash and rocks leading to settlements being buried under the debris. Volcanoes also lead to lava flows and ash-and-gas explosions which damage and destroy many settlements/towns around the volcano. In worst case scenarios, eruptions of volcanoes lead to death of people and wildlife. Therefore we can deduct that a volcano is a geographical problem…

Introduction Within the context of this passage we are faced with the dichotomous pull of the glorious in-breaking kingdom of heaven, where Jesus proclaims the character of kingdom dweller, and the brokenness of the present world, where sin still besets men and women. Perhaps the listeners of the day, as we do today, sat and pondered, “Am I in the kingdom of heaven or am I out?” Scot McKnight rightly identifies that the Beatitudes are a sweeping “manifesto of a kingdom way of life.” In…

Life Together offers a fresh and faithful vision for the life of discipleship in community. The introduction tells us that this book is a recording of Bonhoeffer’s learning’s from an experiment that took place in Finkenwalde, Germany (now Poland). From 1935 to 1937 Dietrich Bonhoeffer served as pastor, administrator, and teacher at an underground seminary there. He insisted that if seminarians were to learn about and lead within the Christian community, they must also enter into and learn the…

The film Storm Over Everest (2008) provided by Frontline Documentary focuses on many hardships climbers endured during this horrific storm in 1996. The focus on this film was to inform viewers of the measures that can happen when climbing an unpredictable mountain. Director David Breashears emphasis many people have diverse perceptions of the mountain. He states "for over 25 years, I have been making the trip to Everest and have stood on its summit five times". He, himself, was at base camp when…

A brave man by the name of Aron Ralston had went on a beautiful trip to Blue John Canyon to hike and climb thousand foot rocks. While on this very risky journey, he had fallen into a narrow ravine and a boulder had rolled and dropped onto his right hand crushing bones and all. Aron spent 127 hours trapped by this boulder trying to find a way to remove the boulder from his useless crushed hand. Unfortunately no strategy of his could loosen the boulder from its devastating spot to get free so Aron…

As I am someone that has no interest in mountain climbing, Kevin Macdonald’s interpretation of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates’s intrepid journey, ‘Touching the Void’, is a powerful film that is sure to turn heads and has definitely made me reconsider spending time mountain climbing. This docudrama follows a tragic incident that results in one man’s fight for survival after Joe and Simon’s descent up the unclimbed Peruvian Andes and ends with the audience questioning what they would do. To achieve…

sherpas tasked with the greatest workload and the most to lose, Everest represents a hard, economically necessitated risk. In a climbing culture driven by commercialism, sherpas are arguably some of the most experienced and well adapted climbers on Mount Everest, yet have little to no say in addressing the issues of safety or working conditions that are brought on by commercial motives. Initiating transformational leadership can solve many of the symptomatic problems of commercialization. By…

Throughout life, both children and adults must face their own roadblocks in order to grow both mentally and physically stronger. In the book, Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer, tells of his experiences and struggles on Mount Everest during his first ever climb of the world’s tallest mountain. When he finally begins his climb in 1996, disaster strikes and eight climbers were confirmed dead, including the famous Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. Several other climbers were never found due to the storm.…

It is impossible to know what drives people to take risks, but people do crazy, often dangerous, things when they undertake a mission. For example, Stanley Pearce walked thirty miles through the snow to stake a mining claim. Farah Ahmedi climbed a mountain on a prosthetic leg to reach freedom. Annie Johnson started a business from nothing but an idea so that she could support her children and not have others care for them. These real people had different reasons for doing what they did. Pearce…