It has been said that people who put themselves at risk shouldn't rescued. I think differently. I think all people deserve to be rescued no matter what they get themselves into, but if they deserve to be punished, then punish them. Taking a risk is something we choose to do, and we had not taken risk our world wouldn't be the way it is today. To begin with, why make a mountain open to climb when you don't want them to put themselves at risk. Those people took a risk choosing to open the mountain even though it wasn't something they had to be rescued from. People like to climb mountains even if it is dangerous. Those people could be professional climbers or inexperienced ones. People who climb those mountains know they are putting themselves …show more content…
If there is no one climbing the mountain, there is no need for a rescue team which ultimately means they no longer have a job. People get professions for all sorts of reasons, but usually because they love their job. People who rescue other people for a living do it because they love their job, so why wouldn't they want to save a person off a mountain. They are putting themselves at risk too! Furthermore, taking risks is apart of life. We choose to eat everyday even though we could choke. We go to school everyday taking the risk that a bad guy could get in. If that person is choking at school, does he deserve to be rescued? If a bad guy gets in the school, do we deserve to be rescued? We sleep every night taking the risk that we might not ever wake up. People take risk everyday, so what would life be like without risks? On the other hand, some people think if you put yourselves at risk you don't have the right to be rescued. They say that if they were to climb a mountain it is their choice, furthering meaning they don't believe they should be rescued. After a person is in a state of dying, they believe they should be rescued, but they just believed that others
Everest in 1996. This became the deadliest expedition to ever climb with 15 people losing their lives. Krakauer explains his intrinsic motivations to accept this challenge and many of the mistakes that helped lead to the disasters of that day. He includes himself, and explicitly blames himself for at least one person's death. The experience affects him profoundly, and in addition to telling the story, the book focuses on how Krakauer is forever changed as a result of what happened. All of the clients have difficulty adjusting to the altitude, tiring easily, losing weight and moving slowly. The climbers' experience in mountain climbing and at high altitudes varies some of them are quite qualified, others very inexperienced and highly reliant on the
Climbing Mount Everest is a horrific and thrilling experience that 290 people have died attempting to complete. In the novel “Into Thin Air” written by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer goes through his own journey of climbing Mount Everest and how commercialized the climbing of Everest had really become. In his journey he explains how climbers have paid as much as $65,000 to join a guided group that would lead them to the summit. The author bluntly states that some of the novices were not qualified to climb Mount Everest. With this amateurity it only made the journey twice as much difficult and dangerous. Unfortunately, a terrible blizzard struck Mount Everest within minutes of them reaching the top. For all of the climbers on the mountain, the blizzard turned what was to be a successful climb for all concerned into a nightmare. Because of poor planning, several of the climbers found themselves in a desperate situation that they had no
The cost for a guide to bring someone up the mountain can be upwards to $70,000. People wanted to go regardless of their health and condition and guides would just do their job and just lead people up without knowing if they are weak or not ready for the climb.”Why did veteran Himalayan guides keep moving upward, ushering a gaggle of relatively inexperienced amateurs […] into an apparent death trap?”(Krakauer 8). This quote is an example of how the guides treat the people climbing up the mountain with the. They disregard the condition and state the people are and just keeping leading them up asking or knowing if they are weak and not ready for the climb up. Not only is this part of guide’s fault for people becoming injured or dead it is also the person’s fault for not thinking about themselves and the state and condition they are in to try to climb up the mountain.”It can't be stressed enough, moreover, that Hall, Fischer, and the rest of us were forced to make such critical decisions while severely impaired with hypoxia”(Krakauer 285). Jon Krakauer is responsible for some of the deaths of people mentioned in the book because of the decisions he made. Krakauer himself said he had guilt for not fully helping the people with hypoxia. The timing and decisions he made for descending back down also did play a role in how he caused some people to die instead of helping
Have you ever wanted to prove to everyone that you are a hard worker that is willing to give up everything to go on an adventure? If this is you than Everest is the perfect place for you. A great deal of Everest’s dangers are expressed in his book which should either inspire you to try this journey or sway you away from the treacherous mountain. In the story, “ Into Thin Air,” by Jon Krakauer a true story is told of a dangerous voyage up and down Everest. The climb up was arduous and long according to Jon, but the climbers sacrificed everything to get to the top, which most of the climbers achieved. However, emotions shifted when a storm swooped in and killed many of the climbers that were stuck on the summit, around 12-19 in total. The devices
We all know that staying safe will keep us alive, but it is a boring way to live. The biggest regret a person can have is never trying what they always wanted. As mentioned before, time never stops, so it is crucial that they act now. We fight a battle before we are even born against millions of others to see who will get to the egg first and be fertilized and born. We did not come to this world to just be safe and to be afraid to do new things. We all have a reason to be here and the journey of life is to find our purpose in life. It is what makes life so great, but to get their we must take risks and overcome that fear. People are afraid of taking risks because of failure. They are afraid to fail and not get anywhere. However, that fear can be overcome is they keep pushing and keep trying and keep taking risks. Taking risks will get a person out of their “safe” comfort zones and the result of this can be something so
Nearly four-thousand people have scaled Mt. Everest, but about 240 people have died trying. Even though people put themselves at risk, society should pay. Society should pay because many people can’t afford to pay the rescue bills and it is the right thing to do.
This topic is relevant to today’s society because it is important to save lives, and doing the opposite would just be inhumane. For example, there’s a single mom on a little adventure on Everest, alone, and she fell. Should rescue services help her to reunite with her little kids? Or should they “accidentally” put the poor kids in an orphanage? With the example given above, it is crystal clear that the option to save the mom is the best choice. And that’s why people do have the right to rescue services when they put themselves at risk. There are a lot of mountain climbing accidents happening every day, think about it, imagine how grieving life would be for the unfortunate climbers’ families if rescue services can’t help
Climbing makes for a difficult expedition, you need to give up the wrappers when you was ascending. You need to give up the heavy things, you need to give up your wrappers, and you need to give yourselves. Sometimes we need to give up our lives to climb the mount Everest. According to snow storm, the energy, the oxygen and the people who desired prove themselves the spring’s 96s expedition to mountain Everest was destined to be the most tragic.
Have you ever called rescue services, to help you? Everyone will call for help, whether it is for a fire, car crash, burglary, and many more. You would want help, right? Rescue services are called from everywhere, to save people’s lives. Now a debate of should people who put themselves at risk receive rescue services has risen. This has become a debate to do the many people dying trying to save people from getting hurt. People that put themselves at risk should not receive rescue services because, climbers are not experienced enough, others are at risk, and the climbers are taking more risk and by doing that they are hurting themselves.
Imagine feeling guilty for making it out alive on a journey. In the nonfiction novel, Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer, he documents his journey to the summits of Mount Everest and ultimately accuses himself of holding responsible for the disaster on the mountain. After realizing only one-fourth of the people that climbed to the summits on May 10, 1996, made it back down to base camp alive, Krakauer theorizes why that was so. He attributes most of the reason for the disaster to the erratic weather, along with hubris, who wanted the thought of leading a group to the mountain. Despite those reasons, there is no ultimate reason for the deaths documented in the book, but bottom line the climbers that died didn’t thoroughly comprehend the danger they were going to encounter as a consequence that contributed to the disaster.
Everest. “The falling ice hit twenty-five men, killing sixteen of them, all Nepalis. Three of the bodies were buried beneath the debris and were never recovered,” (Source 2). This tragedy had occurred all when mountaineering. This is not something rare either, according to Source 1 “Keep Everest Open”, “...Everest exacted a ratio of one death for every four successful summit attempts”. This sport is extremely dangerous if something goes wrong, which means that the chance of death is high. So why would anyone want to risk their life just to climb a
Everest is an unbelievable mountain that has taken the lives of a number of the greatest climbers in history. It was my job to ensure that clients make it up that treacherous mountain safely. My name is Rob Hall. I was the main guide and cofounder of a climbing company called Adventure Consultants. My friend, Gary Ball, and I used to be professional climbers. Together we succeeded in climbing to the highest summit on each of the seven continents in seven months. This was our greatest achievement. After this, we decided to start our own company guiding clients up large mountains. In May 1992, we successfully led six clients to the summit of Everest. Unfortunately, Gary died of cerebral edema in October 1993 during an attempt on the world’s sixth-tallest mountain. He died in my arms and the next day I buried him in a crevasse. Despite the pain that his death had caused me, I continued guiding for our company and eventually led thirty-nine climbers to the summit of Everest.
Helen Keller once said “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all”. Chris McCandless believed in this thought. However, Chris’s “daring adventure” also cuased his quick demise. People risk their lives for many reasons. Perhaps a person is suicidal or maybe they are foolish and ill prepared. I believe many people, including Chris McCandless, risk their lives for an adventure because life is short, and why not take risks while a person still can. Or on the contrary, a person could be seeking a thrill, or attempting to test their worth, or simply trying to decide who they really are.
Some people think that individuals should get rescued even thought they put themselves at risk. They say that rescuers signed up for that job, knowing they’ll put their life on the line. However, people shouldn’t die trying to save someone who purposely risk their life. After all, it is the climber’s fault, so their rescuer should have to die because of their faults.
Not every event has a guaranteed outcome- sometimes, one has to take a gamble in the game of life. There are some, however, who would prefer to travel within the safe, confined lane of actions with a definite outcome. Deciding whether or not to take risks in life can be tricky, but as Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” This quote means that people should take risks in their endeavors, because life is precisely about trying new things and experiences. As the quote explains, taking risks in life is a vital step to success, fulfillment, and gaining more out of experiences.