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Some people make the most in life, and then there's some people who fail to realize life's not always on your side. But the people that do know that life's not perfect but do something about it, make the most of it. There are only 2 basic ways of climbing mt. everest, one way, is the expedition style and the others Alpine style climbing. Imagine you're finally at the top of Everest, Discovery Channel is broadcasting you over 500 countries while you put your skis on, you brace yourself and look…

Both passages "The World's highest Mountain" and "A Mountain of Garbage" talk about Mt. Everest. "The World's Highest Mountain" talks about two people who climbed to the summit of Mt. Everest. While the second passage "A Mountain of Garbage" talks about how climbers on Mt. Everest pollute the mountain by leaving waste and discarded items. These passages are both alike and different in many ways. The two passages are similar because they both revolve around Mt. Everest and climbers. The first…

Life seems to have endless possibilities and opportunities. Some may be beneficial, whereas others may have no benefit to one’s life. In the book Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, the characters will have the opportunity to go up the tallest mountain in the world. Although their life will be at stake, the opportunity for the climbers is just too good to pass up. When reading this book, one will question the climbers’ ways of thinking and the decisions that they make. As you get further into the…

Southeastern Utah might as well be the surface of Mars. Between the buttes and mesas of an arid landscape, where tumbleweeds blow across the roads, sagebrush grows from the cracked nutrient-rich soil, and prickly pears sprout under rusted, broken rock, there is little besides long stretches of open wilderness. In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, while much of the climbing community fixated on the Yosemite Valley, and the world’s attention was captivated by the Himalayas, a group of Colorado…

Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. It stands 29,029 feet up. It is the most dangerous mountain to even attempt to climb. There is massive crevasses and icefalls sometimes even an avalanche “Climbing is as close as we can get to flying”. This quote means try your best to reach the top of your goals. Bachendri Pal did exactly this in 1984. Bachendri Pal is in charge of many other expeditions of her own because she owns her own company called national adventure foundation. She…

Should people have the right to demand emergency services when they put themselves at risk? If you are warned about attempting something dangerous and you do it anyway, that is stupidity. Rescue services should not have to risk their own lives because you decided that it would be fun to cliff dive. First of all, why would you put your life on the line for some five minute fun? I don`t understand what is so fun about risks anyway. I believe it is ignorance. To begin ask yourself, if you are…

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…

Imagine yourself standing on top of a mountain, feeling the breeze hit your face and flowing through your hair. Imagine yourself feeling the weight and burden of everything that’s ever happened to you suddenly disappear as you look across the mountain top, viewing the world from a much clearer sight than anything you’ve ever seen before. Imagine, just imagine, yourself knowing that you accomplished climbing a mountain all on your own, that everything you did in the past lead up to this very…

In early May 1996, two teams of commercial expeditions led by highly experiences climbers attempted to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Out of the 23 mountaineers that attempted the summit, only 18 survived. Of the five that perished, two men, Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, extremely skilled climbing leaders with previous experience reaching the summit, did not make the decent. Since that deadly expedition in 1996, many, including the survivors of that climb, have attempted to explain why the…

“With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill, the trick is to get back down alive.” This quote from Jon Krakauer captures the gripping story of Into Thin Air which summarizes Jon’s emotional and physical journey while climbing the tallest mountain in the world. Through extensive climbing and note-taking Jon is able to share his experiences and tell a riveting story about his life or death experience from the perspective of a reporter which provides an amazing point of view…