Many people try to climb Mount Everest. Some fail and some succeed. Climbing the tallest mountain in the world has several pros and cons. Several people and different organizations try fixing the cons. One of the pros are that it makes people feel good to climb the mountain. Once people reach the summit, they have accomplished their goal. Their goal was to get to the top, and some people have done it. Another positive side is that the mountain climbing attracts tourists. With tourists coming to see the mountain or climb it, it would make the economy go up. Chances are, the tourists would go out to eat, or buy stuff from the stores. This would help people make money faster, and give people more job opportunities. This proves that climbing …show more content…
One of the cons are pollution. When people climb up the mountain, they bring a lot of supplies such as water and food with them. As the people are climbing up the mountain or going down the mountain, they get rid of the trash and waste that they don't need. They do this because they do not want to have to carry around the extra weight. Carying this extra weight will make the people more tired, and more out of breath. Over time, this trash piles up and makes the mountain polluted, resulting in having less tourists and less people climbing the mountain. Another con is that some people can die on the journey. There are some parts of the mountain that have 10,000 foot drops, and some people died in the process of climbing the mountain. If the people do not die, they can get very sick or injured. This proves that it is a very bad idea to be climbing the mountain. Different people and organizations help to prevent the cons so that people could still be climbing the mountain today. These people work together to keep the mountain safe and clean. They also make sure that the people would be able to still climb the mountain. They clean up the trash and make places that are dangerous as safe as they can. They do this so that the economy would be able to continue to grow and people would still be able to reach their goal. Climbing Mount Everest obviously has some pros and cons. People can die and people can reach their goal. To keep
"These climbers risk life and limb to thin air, frostbite, bone-chilling cold, hypothermia, avalanche and high wind to reach some of the world's highest summits like the 14 mountains in Asia that rise above 8,000 meters."(❡4) These mountain climbers risk their lives for the view and beauty of the world. The evidence also shows that if anyone takes a risk, that person can have great achievements. If mountain climbers don't possess this trait then they aren't cut out for being a mountain climber. Mountain climbing is all about the risks for a great
One very off-putting factor for climbing Mount Everest is the climb itself. This is because of all of the risks taken when doing so. All of the risks are very extreme and most can actually lead to death as many that have attempted making the treacherous journey up the mountain have not made it back down safely. This factor can become stuck in many people’s heads and change their minds about making the journey up this beautiful mountain completely. Although several see the travel up the mountain as dangerous and unpleasant, many also see it as the best part of the whole trip. This makes perfect sense seeing as during this climb you can experience some of the most beautiful scenery anyone would ever have the chance to see in their entire lives. The climb has been said to be beautiful and well worth all of the hardship of injury and pain. Overall the climb up the mountain can be seen as the whole reason not to climb Mount Everest or the very reason to do so, but either way the sights you can see are magnificent, or are they?
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
Lack of psychological safety within the team members failed to fix cognitive bias of irrationality. If members developed trust within the team, cognitive bias could have been prevented or at least minimized. The truth that climbers might make irrational decisions and find it hard to turn back when they are so closed to the summit was obvious, but teammates seeing this problem did not speak up since they did not feel that their thoughts were welcome and felt uneasy. More cognitive biases could also been prevented to lessen the complex system of the expedition. Since climbing Mt. Everest is already a high risk venture, any additional problems such as irrational decisions can cause a crisis. Using the early sign of issues with Hall’s team’s progress, it was obvious that the probability of failing the expedition was high before the team even started. Hall could have used the issues as a sign of the complex systems that exist, and could have used this knowledge to prevent any irrational decisions. The complex systems and the lack of psychological safety also contributed to the tragedy. The team members failed to communicate and trust each other, which then added more problems to the complex systems. For instance, Boukreev’s could have spoken up to his team leader, Fischer, about his concerns regarding his team members lacking experience to begin with. By speaking up, he could have prevented more chain reaction due to lack of communications and feedback within the
Others may say that they like climbing Mount Everest because of fame, the thrill of climbing it, or they want to complete a hard challenge. But lots of people lose their lives because of Mount Everest, so what should we do about that? In this piece, I will prove that climbing Mount Everest is too dangerous, and that this is the difference between life and death. The first thing that makes Mount Everest dangerous to climb, is avalanches. They could come at any second and bury a climber alive if it was coming down too fast!
Have you ever thought about what it would be like if you could climb Mount Everest? Well, I will tell you one thing, it is a long, tedious, and dangerous expedition. Even though people have reached the top of Mount Everest, usually one or more person dies on the way. There are so many dangerous things that could happen to you when you are climbing Mount Everest. Well, I can tell you most of the things that could happen to you when you are climbing Mount Everest and how to be safe from those dangerous things.
The particular descent ahead of those on the ''hill'' on May 10, 1996, resulted in the greatest loss of life in the history of mountaineering on Everest. As news spread of the nine deaths (including that of Hall, who spoke to his wife in New Zealand by radiophone as he lay stranded in a snowstorm on the summit ridge), a barrage of questions resounded: What went wrong? Why was the approaching storm ignored? And, most emphatically, why are ''tourists'' with more money than expertise being taken up Everest in the first place?
Finally, like hurting the environment and leaving behind waste, the source “A Mountain of Garbage” shows why climbing Mount Everest is a reason for pollution on the mountain. For example, the source explains, “By mid-2013, a total of nearly 4,000 people had reached the mountain’s summit. With that number of people comes an even greater amount of food containers, tents, empty oxygen canisters, and even human waste” (A Mountain of Garbage 2). This describes how many people climbed the mountain. One can infer from this that a lot of people could cause the mountain to become polluted. Moreover, the source also states, “Since that time, many other climbers have set the same goal for themselves. In doing so they’ve carried needed supplies up the mountain with them. Unfortunately, many of these materials haven’t made their way back down again. As a result Everest has been turning more and more into a mountain of garbage” (A
Why do we deserve such a beautiful mountain that was the foundation of many accomplishments and created goals for young mountaineers, when we are just going to take it for granted? Although climbing Mount Everest is a great achievement, being able to keep it clean is even greater. Scaling up the mountain has many positive results yet there are still negative consequences. Climbing this particular mountain means that there is a negative side, almost as large as Mount Everest itself.
Mount Everest is unpredictable it can do many things to make your climb unsuccessful. Source one states, “A wedge of ice the size of an enormous mansion broke loose and killed sixteen Nepalese guides at an altitude of about 17,000.” Sixteen people dared to be successful in climbing Mount Everest
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
The mountain has claimed many lives and will for as long as there is still people wanting to climb Everest, but they will know the risks of the mountain and all that can happen when climbing the most dangerous tallest mountain in the world so high that planes fly past the top of it.
Should people really climb Mount Everest? Over the past two decades, it has become easier to climb to the summit, at least it is more accessible. It has also become garbage dump with human excrement, bodies, and garbage littering the trail. There are about 35,000 visitors to Mount Everest every year and the crowding puts people at risk. One important thing is to train climbers to have the necessary experience. Without that, the hidden dangers go unnoticed and the fact that at some point, it is imperative that they head back won’t be known.
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..
Do you ever think to yourself, hey I think I could climb Mount Everest. What could go wrong, right? Well if you are thinking about it I am going to give you some reasons to think again about climbing Mount Everest. Climbing Mount Everest is a bad idea because you’re polluting native lands, endangering the lives of others apart from your own, and exposing yourself to tons of risks like hape, frostbite, lack of oxygen, etc. These are some reasons I think it’s not a good idea to climb mount Everest.