What I Learned From Mount Everest “Do it! Do it!” Alex and Jessica yelled. I gulped and looked down at the tall hill, wondering if I would get hurt. 5 minutes before that, my mom dropped me off at Alexandra’s house. “Have a fun day sweetie!” she said, waving, and drove off to her party, which was why I was staying with Alex and Jessica for the next 6 hours. Jessica was Alex’s friend, but I knew her pretty well since we were in the same 3rd grade class and sat next to each other. We sat down on the carpet and talked, until Alex’s mom, Mrs. Baker, I’ll call her (names have been changed to protect the guilty), came into the kitchen. “Hi Delphine!” Mrs. Baker said cheerfully, and then turned to Alexa. “I am going to my yoga class, so I want …show more content…
I lived (and still do!) in a cul-de-sac, and everyone said that the hill the road comes down into my cul de sac was a mountain. They were always amazed about how I could fearlessly scooter down the mountain. I suppose I could have been called “the scooter master” but I was very modest about my skills. “Woohoo! I’m the best scooterer in the world!” I shouted on the top of my lungs as I jumped from the pavement to the sidewalk. Jessica was still watching me scooter, wide-eyed that I wasn’t screaming in pain from pedaling with my bare foot on the concrete road. Alex stopped scootering and pointed to the hill. My eyes grew huge. If my street was a mountain, Mr. Woods’s driveway was Mount Everest. I was surprised that it was even possible to drive a car up there. Jessica looked surprised too, and I was starting to wonder if she actually knew what Mr. Woods’s driveway looked like or if she just joined in with Alex’s burst of excitement faster than I did. “What are you waiting for? Come on slowpokes!” Alex said, halfway up the hill. Jessica and I exchanged panicked looks but ran up the hill following Alex’s …show more content…
“Are you kidding me?” Alex yelled back. “I am not going to let her see this.” Alex and Jessica dragged me, and my now-battered scooter back to Alex’s house until I was in her room. I was didn’t realize that I was screaming until Alex told me to shut up, which I replied to with a whimper. “Jessica! Grab me toilet paper and tape!” Jessica ran into the bathroom and came out with five rolls of toilet paper and tape. Ten minutes later, I was covered in toilet paper taped to my bloodied arms, and the girls would just tape more on when it bled through. Alex had made me change into one of her long-sleeved shirts so nobody could notice that my arms looked like someone had put a cheese-grater against them. Alex was kind enough to tell her mom that we were going to watch movies, so I could lie on the bed and have Jessica continue to tape toilet paper to my arms. After what seemed like eternity, my mom finally came to pick me up. “Delphine, why are you wearing a different shirt?” she asked, frowning. Jessica and Alex shared panicked glances with each other. “We had a water gun fight.” I replied, with my best I’m-not-bleeding-out face I could put on. I could feel Jessica and Alex’s relief. My mom nodded and I got in the car and waved goodbye to my
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.
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
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
Climbing Mt. Everest is an accomplishment that only a limited number of people can say they have accomplished. Despite statistics that illustrate most fail or die trying, numerous people are drawn to the mountain each year and truly believe they can be among that elite group. In the spring of 1996, Jon Krakauer, a journalist for the adventure magazine Outside and a passionate climber himself, was offered the opportunity to climb Mt. Everest. The original offer was to join an Adventure Consultants team led by Rob Hall, a respected and well known guide, climb to base camp and then write a story on the commercialism that had penetrated this incredibly risky but addicting sport. Without much hesitation Krakauer accepted the offer but not to just go to base camp; he wanted the top. The expedition started out as predicted but an unexpected storm the day of the summit push turned this expedition into the most devastating expedition of all time. Krakauer was changed for life; an article on the commercialism surrounding the mountain would no longer suffice. Into Th...
One of the elements behind the desire to climb Mount Everest is the determination to summit as a redemption. Stacy Allison, the first American woman to summit Mount Everest, explained how climbing allowed her to recover from an abusive
Mount Everest is the highest death trap in the world. It is behemoth of a mountain that lures in people from all over the globe. The book Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer tells a story about an Everest expedition that had gone terribly wrong. Jon Krakauer joins a expedition team to attempt to climb Mount Everest and along the way the mountain was taking the lives of his teammates, but in the end the only life he was able to save was his own. As great as people believe it to be, this mountain contains terrains and weather conditions like no other; get caught in a bad storm up there and you are as good as dead. The altitude sickness is not too pretty either, and climbers who are unprepared will soon realize this harsh reality. No matter how bad
In the article “Finding Your Everest” by Robert Medina, The claim(s) offered are “Can parents go too far in supporting their children’s dreams?” and “ Many mountain climbers and medical experts questioned whether a 13-year-old boy could climb so high” On one hand the Parents of the young boy, Jordan Romero who fell in love with hiking mountains after seeing a mural at his school, believe that taking him to hike Mt.Everest is not pushing him too far but, Dr. Michael Bradley of the National Institute of Health and physician and Dr. Peter Hackett say otherwise. Paul Romero, Jordan’s father, believed that Jordan was totally capable in climbing the many summits that he did climb. Paul Romero is an experienced mountaineer and he knows what procedures and how to be safe and knows the risks involved when it comes to climbing mountains. The text says “ Paul Romero is an experienced mountaineer, so he knew what was involved.
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.
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.
I believe that climbers should not be rescued if they put them on self at risk. If someone puts their life at risk, rescuers should not have to put their own life at risk to save them. Some people end their lives by taking this risk to climb Everest. Even though some people complete, the climb some people don’t make it out alive with their decision. Climbers should not count on the rescuers to save them when it is there on choice to climb Everest.
Grace had arrived on time, she beeped the horn and Alyssa ran to the car without looking back. Grace looked at her as she put her bags in the back seat and clicked her seat belt in. She reached over and rubbed Alyssa's leg. " Hey its okay.
It’s 10:30am and Janice, Alex’s mother, receives a phone call. “Hi Janice, this is Mrs. Smith calling with regards to Alex. Yes, he isn’t having a good day. He has been very disruptive this morning. We tried calling down Alex’s older sister to calm him down, and to talk to him, but he wouldn’t calm down. Would you please come and get him?”
Mount Everest stands today as the world’s highest mountain above sea level. The thought of climbing Mount Everest runs through the mind of many. Just being able to find oneself at the top of the world drives many to accept the challenge. Climbing Mount Everest can be considered a humans greatest accomplishment, although along with this life accomplishment many carry a burden.
Mount Everest, the world’s highest point at 29,035 feet, is a special trophy among high altitude mountaineers. Standing atop the world’s highest point a hypoxic climber clad in a fluorescent down suit is above everything else on the planet, for a moment that individual can reach farther into the sky than any other. Arms raised in a victorious salute, a climber feels like they have conquered something that few others ever have, and justifiably so. The summit is usually the final fruition of months, sometimes years of planning, weeks of travel and acclimatization, and days of endless plodding at a feeble, learning-to-walk pace.
“ Okay be there at seven tonight! ” Amber shouted while running to catch her bus. When Amber got home her parents were in the kitchen paying some last minute bills for the grand opening. “ Hey sweetie, how was your day? ”