Mount Whitney

On the west side of Italy, a six foot chamber of magma is building under Mt. Vesuvius. Mt. Vesuvius is a volcano that is still active to this day but, in 79 A.D. the volcano erupted wiping away the city of Pompeii and killing almost everyone in the city. The eruption killed over 16,000 people and it wiped away all the belongings of the people who did make it out alive. The eruption was a total surprise. No warning was given because the volcano eruption was completely unpredictable. Mt.…

During Jon Krakauer’s climb to Mt. Everest, he was lead by an interesting leader. He explains Rob Hall in his book Into Thin Air. Hall was a motivated climbed who had the skills and experience necessary to reach the top. Hall was thirty-five when he met his end at the top of Everest. Hall had the strength of a leader by the knowledge and body fit for the climb. His loyalty was his weakness because he chose to stay behind knowing he wouldn’t survive if he stayed. Rob Hall is an expert climber…

On August 24th in 79 AD at approximately 1300 a cloud appeared over the Roman city of Pompeii. This was all the warning the residents had before the nearby volcano, Mount Vesuvius, erupted. Huge quantities of scalding hot ash, pumice and lava pebbles were thrown into the sky. This then cascaded down across an extensive area. Most of the 20,000 residents fled for their lives but approximately 2,000 people stayed behind and hoped to wait out the disaster in their homes. Those who stayed…

climbing. The article also says that the amount of deaths on mountains are increasing. The amount of deaths is increasing due to lack of independent decision making skills and the lack of experience climbers have before the tackle 8,000 meter peaks like Mount Everest. Many climbers don’t prepare their minds as well as their bodies for the rigorous affects mountains can have. Mountain climbing requires training of the brain for strong decision making skills and also…

War, ashes, and devastation and the city of hopeless reconstruction. Pompeii illustrates destruction in order to show nobody is safe from danger at any time. The purpose of the telling of Pompeii is to present the world with history from a former city that was once prosperous. The thought of people having to look death in the face is a thought that would be found terrifying. People were suffocated by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and ¨For eighteen hours the ash and rock kept falling¨ (O'Connor…

The map is almost uncannily similar to today's: a spray of black dots showing the recorded sightings of a foul grey haze spreading across Europe, from Helsinki to Naples, from Heligoland to Mallorca, and reaching eventually to Aleppo and Damascus – and all of it caused by clouds of ash from an immense volcano erupting far across the sea in Iceland. But this was a map made from data collected in 1783. The volcano was called Laki, it erupted for eight dismal months without cease, ruined crops,…

So my volcano caused the deaths of 2,000 lives of men and women. The name of my volcano is Mount Vesuvius and back in august 79 AD it caused the city of Pompeii to be destroyed. Volcanos can go off at anytime and anywhere. Earlier before the volcano erupted it was a hot sunny day and the sun was beating down on all the citizens of Pompeii and made them all move to the middle where the water fountain was. As most people went to the middle the volcano started to erupt and put a cloud of ash that…

after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79. The eruption discharged lava to a height of 33 kilometers. The volcano spewed out hot ash and molten rock at a rate of 1.5 million tons per second. The overall deaths that occurred are unknown but they have discovered over 1500 body remains at Pompeii and Herculaneum. The screams from all those who were in shock and who were injured crying out to love ones who had lost their life. Misery occurred on the town after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Caesar…

I believe that the American dream isn’t achievable, but those with great persistence and determination can reach a new goal better than the average. I believe when trying to achieve the American dream, you can’t reach it, but you can achieve something lower than the American dream. When climbing towards the American dream, that is just out of reach, and the goal you can actually reach, it is like climbing a mountain but not being able to reach the peak. The peak of the mountain is the American…

Jerusalem is one of the holiest cities in the entire world. Home to holy places, synagogues, mosques, and churches, millions of people visit the city of Jerusalem. It is also a place of conflict as the three major world religions view Jerusalem as one of the sacred places for their religion. In addition, history has shown that each of these religions wanted to take control of Jerusalem, and destroyed the holy sites belonging to the others. Finally, none of the religions want others to control…