A Banner In The Sky Analysis

As said by Zopa, “You can never tell who the mountain will allow, and who it will not.” Peak needs to reach the top of the mountain as soon as possible, before he turns 15, in order to break the world record of having the youngest person reach above 29,000 feet. To do this, though, he endangers his life with the cold, getting oxygen, and just the climb itself. As they say, “Climb high, sleep low,” to get acclimatized, that way your lungs will be caught up with your body, or else they would collapse and you could come down with a serious case of HAPE. With the climb itself, Peak faces quite a few difficulties. At one point, when he was climbing up a steep slope with his axes, one of Sun-Jo’s slipped, and he was dangling. But, being the hero he is, Peak climbed sideways towards the rope that was hanging there, grabbed it, and swung down to Sun-Jo, saving him just as his crampon was slipping. There were other things like avalanches that happened, but the most killer thing was the so called death zone. In it, you have to get in and out in under 18 hours, or else you will meet certain death. Oxygen or not, there’s only a certain time limit you can survive it. Of course Peak made it out in time, but he did not, in fact, reach the summit, which was actually rather

Whenever climbing, you can put yourself in life-threatening situations. A newspaper article said, “The climbers who fell into the crevasse had slipped on their descent down Emmons Glacier after hiking to Mount Rainier’s 14,411-foot summit....” This supports the idea that climbing can be quite

The entire journey up the mountain is full of danger. You constantly have to worry about the oxygen you are getting and people around you are dying. The air is thin and if there is any air, it’s contaminated. You have to worry about getting the disease H.A.P.E. You have to worry about your health 24/7. You have to get past impossible obstacles. You just have to be strong. Climbing the mountain is an endless, painful battle. No matter what is happening outside of the mountain, on Mount Everest all that matters is Survival.

My knife is gripped underhanded, and my spear waggles in the air. And then I bark—again and again” (Hitt 110). When Hill encounters these dogs he is prepared, with his knife and spear in hand he will do whatever it takes in order to conquer this obstacle that stands in his path even if it means barking. As Hitt is a traveler at heart, he will not allow the dogs, mere mortals, to stop him from continuing his pilgrimage. Also, humans often encounter physically draining problems like Bill Bryson experiences while hiking the Appalachian Trail in A Walk in the Woods: “It was hell. First days on hiking trips always are. I was hopelessly out of shape—hopelessly. The pack weighed way too much. Way too much” (Bryson 50). In this case Bryson is struggling to deal with the intense physical strain that hiking places on a traveler. Nevertheless, Bryson refuses to give up as he mentions “Still you stagger on” (Bryson 51); showcasing how humans refuse to give in even when the journey becomes physically tiring. Another type of challenge, oftentimes the most difficult to deal with is the emotional war the journey unleashes on the traveler. For Bryson, this comes from how difficult it is to see the progress that is being made while hiking through the mountains: “The elusive summit continually retreats by whatever distance you press forward, so that each time the canopy parts enough to give a view you are dismayed to see that the topmost trees are as remote, as unattainable, as before”

In order to continue climbing Everest, many aspects of climbing need to be improved before more people endanger their lives to try and reach the roof of the world. The guides have some areas that need the most reform. During the ascension of Everest the guides made a plethora mistakes that seemed insignificant but only aided in disaster. The guides first mistake is allowing “any bloody idiot [with enough determination] up” Everest (Krakauer 153). By allowing “any bloody idiot” with no climbing experience to try and climb the most challenging mountain in the world, the guides are almost inviting trouble. Having inexperienced climbers decreases the trust a climbing team has in one another, causing an individual approach to climbing the mountain and more reliance on the guides. While this approach appears fine, this fault is seen in addition to another in Scott Fischer’s expedition Mountain Madness. Due to the carefree manner in which the expedition was run, “clients [moved] up and down the mountain independently during the acclimation period, [Fischer] had to make a number of hurried, unplanned excursions between Base Camp and the upper camps when several clients experienced problems and needed to be escorted down,” (154). Two problems present in the Mountain Madness expedition were seen before the summit push: the allowance of inexperienced climbers and an unplanned climbing regime. A third problem that aided disaster was the difference in opinion in regards to the responsibilities of a guide on Everest. One guide “went down alone many hours ahead of the clients” and went “without supplemental oxygen” (318). These three major issues: allowing anyone up the mountain, not having a plan to climb Everest and differences in opinion. All contributed to the disaster on Everest in

In the novel Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, readers are introduced to the 1996 expeditions to Mount Everest, in which men and women from all walks of life and with different motivations seek to climb the world’s highest mountain. However, all of these climbers share the learning experience from their struggles in this expedition that taught them what it is to be human. Before climbing Everest, many of the expedition members thought it would be an easy climb and that humans are invincible, and in years past, mountaineers like Eric Shipton and George Mallory asserted this notion, but the climbers on the 1996 Everest expedition were proven wrong. When talking about one Sherpa who was hit in the back of his head with a rock, Beidleman and Schoening,

Throughout Banner in the Sky, Rudi struggles not only with the battle to climb the Citadel but with a battle within himself. Above anything else, Rudi wants his father to be proud of him and strives daily to live up to his legacy. He achieves his goal of being like his father when he sacrifices getting to the top in order to save Emil Saxo. His actions end the internal war within himself when he ultimately chooses the well being of another over his own desires.

Humans have an undeniable arrogance that causes many to believe that they can conquer and tame nature. Driven by this sense of superiority, people become overconfident and make bad decisions. In and of itself, the idea of climbing mountains is a dangerous one. Just ask the hundreds of people who have died on Everest. It’s the human ego that pushes people to risk their lives to climb mountains.

Have you ever asked yourself if climbing Mount Everest is bad idea I ask myself that question and I think that it is a bad climbing Mount Everest for: the climber , local population , and the environment. One example of why climbing Mount Everest is because for the climber they can get hurt and that is bad because they can get hurt like they can fall. A example for the local population is because they throw a lot of garbage and that can hurt the local population and how it can also hurt the people that is alos a example for the enviroment because that means that it csn hurt he enviroment

In the history of mountaineering, there are those who fall through the cracks of history, and those who outshine the sun itself. Alison Hargreaves was one of these astonishing people who set a new standard in the climbing community. Born in England during the early 1960’s, Hargreaves’ mother was a teacher, and father a scientist. By the time she was six she had already fallen in love with the outdoors through her parent’s hobby of hiking.

Should you risk your life for bragging rights? I believe people should be acquiesced to climb Mount Everest because it is a great experience people to go climb to the top. However in my opinion, I think only some people should be able to climb it, such as athletic people because you must be fit or you are more likely to fail or to not make it to the top. You must have trained as well , so you can be experienced. Someone can't just go up there without knowing what to do because you are setting yourself up to be unsuccessful..

There is no doubt that anyone has heard about the famous Mount Everest. A majority of people go every year, whether they want to just see the sights or they actually dare to climb it and reach one of the greatest achievement of anyone's life. But for some people they do not enjoy the thought of people climbing the mountain and risking their life, in some cases taking their lives. In my opinion, I believe that if someone chooses to take the risk of climbing this potentially dangerous mountain, then they should understand every risk and every dangerous situation that they are going into.

In Source #1, the third paragraph explains how “The human spirit is a questing force, determined to conquer heights, depths, and remote unknowns.” This quote shows how climbing Everest is a part of the human drive to rise

Climbing Mount Everest is a bad idea because many people have died. And it is also dangerous. If you climb it there is probably 90% that you might die.According to the text book on page 420 it says “about 2,000 of them have succeeded, But 1800 or more have died”. This shows that many of the people have died and that it is risky . Also in Peak it tells us about how cold the mountain is and how some people have died because of the cold weather.

He ensures that Peak has the adequate climbing equipment, that both fits well and works correctly to ensure a safe climb. And although Zopa is more self-contained, he compliments Peak on his climbing skills, making Peak feel “like a whole tank of Os flowing into my bloodstream” (P 161). This dialogue reflects that a reserved individual such as Zopa, can still be kind, especially towards such a vulnerable young man as