Sherpa

accomplishment but also an eye-opening experience about the damage others can do by not caring. Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were both adventurous men. Hillary was a beekeeper but had climbed many mountains in his spare time. Norgay was a Sherpa that lead others on climbs and lived in Nepal. Norgay had tried to climb Mount Everest before but was never successful. Hillary knew that he was not going to let anything stop him and Norgay from reaching the top of the mountain. They set out…

Every year, Sherpas risk their own lives attempting to safely guide other mountaineers to the summit of Mount Everest, yet they receive no special award or recognition after accomplishing this amazing feat for many other mountaineers. A couple thousand dollars may seem like a reasonable fee to aid others up the mountain, but it is not worth the life-threatening conditions they must overcome. Sherpas are genetically adapted to the below-freezing temperature and they have a stronger resistance to…

Mount Everest is one of the most notorious landmarks due to its record breaking height. This height is what attracts many climbers, qualified or incapable, to tackle the challenges the mountain brings. Jon Krakauer was one of many people to take the challenge, and reported his journey in his book, Into Thin Air. Along his adventure among his guided group, Krakauer witnesses the deaths of others and brings the question of who is responsible for these tragedies. It may be easy to point fingers at…

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 you can for anything that might go wrong. Helping the Sherpa people out is a good thing as well. The climbers give them money to guide them and to help them try to reach the top. Sir Edmund Hillary even helped build schools in Nepal, which is at the base of Mt. Everest.…

This will be about how Marco Siffredi attempted to descend Everest on a snowboard. Marco Siffredi sent out with a group of sherpas to summit Everest so he could be the first to snowboard down it.It was September 8th when he finally reached the summit, after an hour of rest the sherpas urged him not to go becasue of bad weater conditions, but he ignored there pleas and procceded to descend down Everest. After waiting 2 days for his arrival back down people…

Preventable Deaths “Into thin air” by Jon Krakauer is a personal account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. One out of every four climbers, dies on the mountain, according to Jon Krakauer's book. Fifteen climbers died in the 1996 climbing season alone. With odds such as these, who should decide who is allowed to climb the mountain, and who is not? Should an individual decide they can do it, all on their own? I think it should be a chain of decisions, between several people, and groups of people.…

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In the scenario, Sherpa is indicated to have been the leader. Sherpa did not appear to have explicitly said anything to the group; however, it is indicated in the response from McCoy that “we had our own well-being to worry about. Our Sherpa guides were unwilling to jeopardize us or the porters for the sadhu. No one else on the mountain was willing to commit himself beyond certain…

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…

The role of commercialism play in the disaster of 1996 In Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, climbers and guides of varying skill levels attempt to summit Everest in the disaster of 1996. The 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…