Climbing Mt Everest: The Most Difficult Climb In The World

The role of the simulation exercise is to come together as a team and complete the most difficult climb in the world. Climbing Mt. Everest is a difficult challenge and cannot be done alone. It requires a significant amount of group effort and individuals need to work together as a team, cooperate and collaborate with one another, and rely on each other expertise and decision to ascend to the top of the mountain.

The team embarked on six days of climbing Mt. Everest with the common goal of reaching the top. Our team consisted of six members. The leader role was played by Thomas Hettleman, the environmentalist role was played by Emily Gladstone, the marathoner roles was played by Taylor Davis, the photographer role was played by Ty Andrews,

Each team member analyzed the data regarding weather conditions, health, team supplies and goals. Our leader was very effective on the information sharing by taking notes to be used throughout the game. Each of us read the individual goals by the order of importance and made notes to be used later in the game. Before each ascend, Becky and myself made sure that each team member was in good health. The team goal was to reach the summit, through four

Even though we had a good strategy in place and a good team atmosphere our understanding of certain situations turned out to be misplaced. For example, we fail to calculate correctly the oxygen tanks each member need it. We did not use any calculation but used common sense and failed on that challenge. Another mistake we made was drifting from the common goal to reach the summit and during the game we started to focus on personal goals. For example the goal of environmentalist was to reach camp 4 and once she reached the camp we decided she need it to stay. Also, the photographer personal role was to stay in camp 2 and take photo, so we decided he could go back and stay at camp