Rocky Mountains

I’ve climbed a mountain; not like marched up Everest, but climbed a 100 foot rock face. It is important you know this about me because this act encompasses how far I’ve come in my life, and in my art. It is also the thing I am most proud of. First, I have never been the thinnest girl, quite the opposite actually, so the idea of putting on a harness in front of anyone was terrifying. What if it didn’t fit, or worse, what if it barely fit and I looked like one of those stress toys you squeeze?…

What really climbing Everest is Many people believe that climbing the mountain Everest would consume a lot of physical strengths. It is absolutely true that it acquires a tremendous amount of strength. However, climbing the Everest need more than physical endurance. As reading through ‘Into Thin Air’, the prejudices of climbing the Everest had collapsed. Thinking about Everest, people need enough physical strength to endure all the pains during climbing, but the prerequisites of climbing were…

changes. The sky starts to turn a darker more vivid blue as everything else turns a tint of red form the dust. The mountains around me are a bright dusty red, and the closer to the amphitheater that I got the rock walls turned into a dark clean red that looked like it was tanned by the sun and the dust washed off by the cool whirling winds coming off the giant white peaked mountains.…

Is it worth it? Climbing mountains is harder than most people think. Strength, determination, and problem-solving are only a few of the skills that climbers need to have. Although sherpa guides know the best paths, and the ascent s aren’t as treacherous as they used to be, there are many challenges in the way of getting to the peak. People have the right to mountain services when they put themselves at risk because mountain climbing is dangerous despite your expertise and unpredictable weather…

Mount Everest is known as Earth’s tallest mountain located in Mahalangur mountain range in Nepal. It formed by the Indian tectonic plate pushing up against the Asian plate. Everest is 29,035 feet high. The geography of Mount Everest is at the latitude of 27.9881 degrees N. The latitude has an affect on the air circulation, solar intensity, and rainfall. By Mount Everest being located close to 28 degrees N, it has northeast tradewinds; therefore, the surface currents flow clockwise. At times,…

wind had died down and their spirits were renewed. Even three hours away, the mountain range was still astonishing. It was if the mountains had a mystery, just waiting to be discovered. As the miles counted down, they found themselves deeper and deeper in the Rocky Mountains. The mountains were majestic. Towering mounds of earth with a fresh blanket of snow. Evergreen trees lined halfway up the face of the mountains, as if their only purpose was to accent the wonder. It was extremely hard…

thirty mile hike. Right now you probably think I’m crazy for hiking up mountains for thirty miles! But I will never forget the experience of the beauty of the Sawtooth mountains and spending time with my grandpa. Also, I will never forget the massiveness of the three ridges we had to climb up. That was definitely not my favorite part of the hike. The hike started out at a lake called Pedit Lake, then we went to a few other mountain lakes before we got to beautiful Redfish lake, our destination.…

Interviewer:What did you hope to experience in the Andes? Rosemarie Alecio:I could not wait to experience the beauty and depth of the Andes.Looking up to the mountain , all I could imagine was my husband and, I on top of the magnificent Venezuelan Andes.The height of the ridged and sharp angles was the finest I've ever witnessed. We gazed up at the rugged and rough shape of the Andes as it looked more immense as we drove closer. I recall ,I couldn’t have waited until I could climb the peak of…

Everest guides fight not only to get to the top, but to get popularity for more customers to climb with them. The only way to get people to pay to get up to the top of the world’s highest mountain was to have a good reputation. Rob Hall the guide for Adventure Consultants, Scott Fisher the leader of Mountain Madness, and Ian Woodall are examples of leaders who made commercialism their highest priority. Rob Hall is a very respected guide on Everest and on this climb he struggles to live up to…

Dealing with a traumatic experience can be very difficult for one to overcome. Jon Krakauer, a journalist and avid climber, was contracted to write a story for Odyssey magazine about climbing Mount Everest. While coming down from the mountain, the expedition group experienced many incidents which caused all but 2 of the members to die. Krakauer was uneasy about the expedition to begin with, but coming home as 1 of 2 survivors severely affected his life after the accident. In Jon Krakauer’s Into…