Mount Everest Cons

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Accomplishing missions. As humans altogether accomplish missions, sometimes there are drawbacks. However, almost everytime, there are benefits. For this example, take Mount Everest. What are the pros and cons of climbing Mount Everest? Read on.

Sir Edmund Hillary once said, " It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." So what really were the pros or benefits of climbing Mount Everest? As the climbers in 1953 finished their climb to the summit of Mount Everest, they must have felt unimaginable feelings of accomplishment, that they actually climbed to the summit of Mount Everest! Yes, they surely felt that they had done something great, that someday, people would look up to them and view them as an example. But that is just one pro. Another benefit would be having a small amount of fame. Hopefully, this would not be your main motivation but it certainly would be nice. Next, you could have a massive improvement in strength due to the incredible amounts of exercise you have to do to reach the top. Certainly, these things would be great, but can they outdo the cons? …show more content…

But all too often people have died attempting to climb this mountain. So before you do something like that; think about the pros AND the cons. To most people, the cons outdo the pros by a long shot. So they decide not to climb the mountain. Others, however, decide to climb Mount Everest because the Pros outdo the cons for them. Either way, it's just up to the person and what their goal is. So in this essay, we've discussed the pros and cons of doing something like climbing Mt. Everest. We have seen how it just depends on the person and what their goal is and if their circumstances allow for doing something like climbing Mount Everest and we have seen examples of people like Sir Edmund Hillary who have been determined to climb the Mountain and succeeded. So what do you think? Is it worth

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