Everest has always been known as deadly. An unchallenged king, towering over the world. So it's almost certain that someone would one day challenge it. “Into Thin Air” is a story about a group who decides to climb Mt. Everest. One of those climbers is a man named Jon Krakauer, it is his view that the story is told from. Climbing Everest is indeed an irrational act, your family, physical health, and mental health would be better off if you stayed on the ground. The following will support my three reasons and hopefully make the right decision clear.
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They do it for the experience. They do it for bragging rights and the ability to say “I did that!”. I fully understand this, and can see why they would want that. Everyone likes bragging rights, or the “I told you so” kind of thing. I'm sure some of them do it for charity or to give kids hope. But I'm talking about the majority, I bet the majority of them want to feel a rush. Which is not a bad thing, but it also has its limits. Where should you draw the line? I say, draw that line at the bottom of …show more content…
Everest isn't only a great physical challenge, it's also mental. You have to push yourself constantly, willing yourself to keep going. It wouldn't be long before mental exhaustion takes place. On summit pushes, climbers are expected to burn 13,000-15,000 calories. That's around seven times the daily intake value. With that much of a calorie deficit, your brain won't be able to function properly. This could lead to you thinking irrationally, causing you to injure yourself and/or others. Panic and fear are also very real, and very dangerous. If you panic at 27,000 feet you will be putting your life at risk for something you think is rational. When in reality, it's
In the memoir Within Reach: My Everest Story by Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin, the author Mark Pfetzer is faced with an extremely amazing yet scary challenge of climbing Mount Everest. Each event is the story has something to do with the nature that is around them at that moment but Pfetzer shows the readers that nature can be a way of life.
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
In the novel Into Thin Air, the author Jon Krakauer shows us two characters who have some similarities, yet are markedly different. Rob Hall and Scott Fischer are both world renowned mountain climbers as well as the leaders and head guides of their own mountain climbing enterprises. Each employ the respect of his peers, yet here is where the similarities end. With differences in their physical stature, climbing styles, and safety concerns, it would seem that one was destined to succeed and other to fail.
Into Thin Air tells the story of the one of deadliest season in the history of Everest, and is a tragedy full of broken crushed dreams and relationships that are torn apart.. Jon Krakauer, a journalist working for Outside magazine, tells his version of the events that occur during his expedition in an attempt to purge his feelings about Everest. Climbing under the leadership of Rob Hall, a very well respected man and climber, Krakauer becomes close with many of his fellow clients and guides, who each have a different reason...
On May 10th, 1996, a mountaineering expedition turned into a disaster when an unexpected storm hit Mount Everest and eventually took twelve people’s lives along with it. While some events are agreed on the disaster, what actually happened that night and the events leading up to it are heavily debated. This debate can be seen in the books Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer and The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev where they disagree on crucial details leading up to the climb. Although Anatoli was the better climber, Jon Krakauer’s account is more credible due to his knowledge on the subject, great character, and determination to show the most honest account of the story possible.
Before I began to read this book, I had an idea about Mount Everest and that it took great skill and determination to conquer. I didn’t know anything about the author or about the story that was going to take place during the book. I haven’t read anything about mountain climbing or anything adventurous like this before. I did enjoy reading this book, it was very interesting and I thoroughly liked to keep reading it. I just liked the adventure part of the book and that is what kept me to read the book and finish it. I thought that the purpose of this book was to be a smooth sailing trip up Mount Everest, but that wasn’t the case. This was an entertaining, but serious story and the title just explained that the air would’ve been thinner than at sea level. The opening lines of the book just explain that they are on the trip and at the summit of Everest, then the story unfolds. This book was difficult to read because there was so many events happening and people were dying and it was hard to keep track of who was alive and dead during the book. I had a hard time understanding everything completely because of this. I thought that this book was going to be a little confusing at the start, but it turned out to be really interesting and action packed. Some of the reading wasn’t interesting and there were lots of details in small things, but other than that I thought that the book was better than I expected it to be.
There are many factors that contribute to staying alive in this environment such as natural ones that include altitude, temperature, weather, mountain conditions that end up creating physical and psychological issues for the human specimen. A combination of experience, modern technology and on-feet thinking is used to bypass these factors. Mount Everest is the world’s highest mountain peaking into the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere at 8848 metres above sea level. At this level of altitude the weather is drastically different to the normal ground-level weather a human would be familiar to. Freezing winds over 160km/h are a constant hassle that impact the visibility and temperature. With temperature always below minus 50 degrees Celsius and a lack of oxygen by 14%, this becomes difficult for the climber to function physically and psychologically which lead to numerous medical conditions such as headaches, edema, frostbite, confusion, nausea, chest problems which is also usually related to dehydration. To keep the winds out of the climbers’ face they wear glacier glasses with side covers and synthetic bandanas with a balaclava, ski goggles and a baseball cap. This helps the block out the wind and cold enabling the climber to see much more efficiently in winds rushing at their face. Layering is a technique that prevents the human body from freezing to death. It involves of wearing layers of lightweight fleece, synthetic zip-up jackets and insulated synthetic pants. These clothing are designed to insulate the human body by keeping the human body’s warmth within the walls of the clothing. The same material is used to make the sleeping bags which the climbers use. Other mountain conditions
The novel "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer, he writes about an experience that changes his life when Outside magazine asks him to write an article about the commercialism of Mount Everest, he knew from that moment that he needed to climb the mountain. But of course his expedition does not go as expected. On May 10th Krakauer reaches the summit after a extremely stressful and treacherous trek up, but only to have to scale down the mountain with his team in one of the most dangerous seasons in the history of Everest. Many things went wrong when they came down the mountain and throughout this book, Jon attempts to evaluate what exactly happened and how things went wrong. He researches and figures out every person actions on that mountain. He has speculations about the failures of the expedition, and blames the catastrophe due to a series of little
Imagine yourself strapped to a mountain, chained up with two other people, struggling to take another move up, it's starting to get steep and the more you move up the harder it is to breathe. Mountaineers face a numerous amount of issues when attempting to climb Mt. Everest. They put their own lives at risk by climbing the mountain. So why do they do it? Just thinking about being on a steep cliff, accidentally making the wrong move, and next thing you know you’re tumbling down the mountain struggling to get a grip of anything. These are the things that make me think of the risks of climbing this mountain.
Ever since people knew it was possible to reach the summits of Mount Everest, about 4,000 people have attempted to climb it and one in four people have died from doing so. “Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed” (Krakauer 13). The very first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest was in 1953, and ever since then about seven percent out of every 4,000 people that attempted have died. In the novel, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, he documents his journey to the summit of Mount Everest.
This climb went as planned and was a “great sight to see” as Miura says. He also climbed it at the age to seventy five and had only small complications on both of these trips. The one that was the scariest was to climb at the age of eighty. His climb up went very smoothly, but with most Everest hikes it’s on the way down where people die. In fact eighty percent of people who have died on Mount Everest was on the descent down the mountain. By the time Miura had reached the top, he was very exhausted and says, “As i went down I had a one hundred to one hundred and twenty percent chance that I wasn’t going to make it.” These complications were due to the three surgeries he had prior to the hike to fix his shattered pelvis as well as to help with his diabetes. He was able to get to base camp five with barely any time to spare. After a little time resting at the base camp he was able to regain his strength and descend down the rest of the mountain safely. His heart problems didn’t stop there, and all of a sudden he wasn’t doing well at all. On his way to the hospital his heart stopped and the paramedics were forced to jump start his heart. He survived, but needed to get more surgery and took a white for him to regain all of the strength that he had
With violent storms and unpredictable avalanches, there’s no doubt that Mount Everest is dangerous for all who attempt to climb it. Various factors play into determining how great of a risk the journey to the summit is, including experience and amount of time on Everest. In recent years, the experience level of the climbers has dropped severely. Due to an increasing number of inexperienced climbers crowding Mount Everest’s slope, endangering themselves and fellow climbers, the governments of Tibet and Nepal, as well as private guiding businesses, should distribute permits to only those who meet specific health and experience qualifications. Mount Everest contains many dangers, making the climb extremely hazardous even for the most experienced
On the day of May 10, 1996, several climbers were attempting to descend the slopes of Mount Everest in blizzard conditions: a time at which every moment mattered. Emerging from the pack, two climbers reached the safety of the tents of Camp Four before the majority of their teammates. Anatoli Boukreev and Jon Krakauer recounted the situation of that day in very different ways, but Krakauer seemed to portray Boukreev as an antagonist in his book, Into Thin Air. Boukreev proved in his own book, The Climb, that multiple actions called into question by Krakauer were in fact valuable steps that an experienced climber used in order to rescue clients in need.
Throughout the book, Jon Krakauer tells about the Sherpas, including details about their religion, superstitions, and way of life. Into Thin Air also tells about the positive and negative aspects of the commercialization of Everest. Everest has become very popular, gaining business for expedition leaders such as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. However, the commercialization makes the climb seem less impressive, which disrespects the mountain and those who climbed it first with no extra help. Many people are intrigued by Everest, so Outside Magazine sent journalist Jon Krakauer to write an article about the journey up and down the mountain. The last few chapters of the book tell the tragedy of three expeditions on May 10th, 1996. Most of the climbers ascended Everest without perishing; however, it was the descent that killed them. The story is thrilling and suspenseful, making it an excellent
Everyone seems to define family differently, however, the significance of family is the same. For you, family means everything. You can always count on your parents and siblings for help and love. Family is very valuable and important to you and should never be taken for granted. No one can deny that family is the foundation of our generation. A family is where we all start our life journey and helps us grow to be successful throughout our lives.