Sherpa

Mt.Everest is the tallest mountain on earth. It is 29,000 feet tall and 5 and ½ miles long. Mt.Everest was formed 60 million years ago. There are 10,000 people who tried to attempt to climb Mt.Everest and left behind garbage. There is so much garbage about 10 tons still littering the slopes. There are lots of different kinds of garbage on the mountain. Corpses of climbers who never made it down lie hidden in the snow. There is tents too, the reason why is because people died and the tents…

The limitations that our minds have placed, have surpassed the physical limitations that our bodies have placed. Humans are not capable of passing these limits unless we allow technology to play a role. Throughout Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, the audience views multiple obstacles and challenges for each and every team who had hopes of reaching the summit of Mount Everest. From the high altitude to the dangers of unknown weather, many climatological complications plague those who take the…

examples of natural obstacles that Krakauer himself and his team had to overcome to complete the expedition. In the novel, “Beidleman, Groom, the two Sherpas, and the seven clients staggered blindly around in the storm, growing ever more exhausted and hypothermic”. (15.37) This quote shows how brutal the natural world can be. Even Though the Sherpas lives there and are familiar with similar disasters, they still can not tell which is up and down or left and right due to the thick storms.…

Climbing Mount Everest is a bad idea because the climbers are causing deforestation. According to the textbook, Geography Alive! Regions and People, it states that “More trees may have been cut to provide fuel for cooking and heating for tourists.”(pg. 422) This is shown in Chapter 20 in Peak by Roland Smith the crew, Peak and his friends, are making there way up to Camp Four and Zopa says,” Get your stoves ready… I know you are not hungry, but you have to eat and drink.” (pg.162) This…

For my Field Study Day I had a confusing turn of events that caused me to go and a research paper on the movie Everest. My original plan was to volunteer at the Elks Lodge but when we arrived there we couldn’t find anyone and waited an hour and a half before leaving. We tried going to a few places nearby, like a church and a retirement home to ask if there were any volunteer opportunites to no avail. So as a last ditch effort we went to the movies and saw Everest. This movie is based on an…

require a lot of maintenance and it is very hard to get stuff up the mountain. Some of the other groups that support the idea are Trekkers, Mountaineers, Doctors, Ecologists and Glaciologists. Some of the groups how do not support the idea are Sherpas and Himalayan Trust…

Mountain people Mountain people live in the Himalayan Region, such as Sherpas, Lhomis, Yolmowas, Langtange, Neyshyangwas, Shyars, Gyasumdowas, and Nymbas. The Tibetan types of people have own culture, tradition, lifestyle, house pattern, marriage system, job, and funeral. They live up to 4500 meters above the sea level. Sherpa people has recorded a summit without any oxygen bottle above the 8000-meter. Sherpa people have a lot of hemoglobin, big chest, nose, and the lung to breathe. They are…

the journey. Ultimately, there is no one person responsible for all of the deaths, greed is to blame. Greed plays a large role in the deaths of Andy Harris, Doug Hansen, Rob Hall, Yasuko Namba, Scott Fischer, Ngawang Topche Sherpa, Chen Yu-Nan, Bruce Herrod, Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa, and Anatoli Boukreev because not all of them were experienced climbers and people just wanted to climb it to climb it, no specific reason. Greed plays a huge role when it comes to letting just about anyone climb Mt.…

Although Krakauer’s Into Thin Air was a riveting tale of dangerous and perilous adventure, Anatoli Boukreev’s version of the deadly 1996 climbing season on Mount Everest told in his ghost written book, The Climb, co-written by G. Weston Dewalt, was far more believable, in large part due to the highly conflicting details between the two novels, and Boukreev’s modest storytelling that stuck to what he knew on that mountain, unlike Krakauer’s accusation expedition style of storytelling, where he…

The Nacirema is a “tribe” in North America. The ethnographic analysis describing the rituals of the Nacirema was written by Horace Miner and actually describes American culture in the 1950s. The article illustrates how anthropologists view and describe other cultures. By turning the analysis on our very own culture, we see how language can influence the reader’s perception of that culture. For example, Miner uses words such as “ritual” “ceremony” and “religious” to describe ordinary activities.…