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Frostbyte, Altitude related illnesses, equipment failure, hypoxia, falling thousands of feet, going blind, and much more. All of these are real, life threatening risks associated with climbing Mt. Everest. So that leads to the question, why? What makes a mountain worth losing your life over? The book “ Into Thin Air” describes the journey of one expeditions fight for survival on one of the world’s most unforgiving mountains. In the year 1996 Adventure Consultants (a world renown mountain expedition group) planned to summit Mt.Everest. Led by the famous mountaineer Rob Hall eight, for the most part poorly trained climbers with little to no serious experience attempted to summit the world’s largest mountain. This is the first of what turns out to be many fatal problems and leads to the deadliest season in the what …show more content…

Due to a higher population of climber than originally planned, compounded by the fact most of the climbers had little experience a bottleneck occurred. That is trouble because it causes unnecessary time at an extremely dangerous altitude. This added time leads to people being left vulnerable to the quickly changing weather and increased the chance of running out of oxygen. Another troubling fact was that general safety was being ignored by people because regardless of the weather because that had summit fever and were fixed on getting to that point no matter what the price was. All of these problems and more set the stage for what became the biggest disaster. The climbers that couldn’t make it back to the safe zones called base camps were forced to brave the the furious storm with nothing but the supplies they had with them. By the time the now Leaderless six man team (there were more people from other parties that joined them along the way down) made it to the bottom of the mountain all but two were either dead, had life threatening injuries, or at the very least life altering

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