George Mallory and Andrew Irvine- The First to Climb Mt. Everest

If Mount Everest were an empire, its motto would undoubtedly be “I shall not be conquered”. However formidable, this giant which stands over 8000 meters above sea level into the sky, did not seem to intimidate the owners of the commercial guide companies, Adventure Consultants and Mountain Madness. In fact, these two firms, which earned considerable profit guiding amateurs up the mountain’s notorious heights, felt comfortable enough to attempt the ascent against the comfort of several participants. Both

As for the first difficulty, himself, he is battling himself between doing what would be good for his father’s business, becoming the youngest to reach the peak of the highest mountain in the world, known as Sagarmatha by the Nepalese, or Mt. Everest as we know it. It was either him, or a boy called Sun-Jo, who was six days older

Mt. Everest’s summit has always seemed an unattainable goal for most people. The idea that most people have is that if I can climb Mt Everest, I can accomplish anything. To have the money and desire to try to attempt it is one thing, but being able to endure the punishment is quite another. Beck Weathers, one of the climbers on this particular expedition, had such severe frostbite that he had to have his right arm, nose and the fingers on his left hand amputated. Everyone on the expedition suffered the rigors of Everest. The two expert guides, Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, lost their lives due to a violent storm that ripped through during their descent from the summit. Their impaired judgment also contributed to their demise. Everest is no respecter of persons. Mt Everest is the most respected mountain in the whole world and if

“Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed” (14)

Rob Hall, a full-time professional climber who climbed Everest four times, was the main director of the Everest climbing service that led Krakauer and a victim of the events of May 1996 (34, 181). Mike Groom, a guide and survivor. Andy Harris, a guide and a victim to Mount Everest. Doug Hansen, a client that was with Hall the day the storm hit. Beck Weathers, a doctor with an appetite for climbing mountains also a survivor. Stuart Hutchinson, a client that had to step in as leader when Hall and the others got stranded on the mountain. Ang Dorje Sherpa, a helper that had refused to fix the ropes for the climbers (187). Jon Krakauer an eager mountain-climber also the narrator and author of the book. Yasuko Namba, group member that got lost on the way down the mountain and unfortunately is left for dead (223). The last person I included, Makalu Gau Ming-Ho was not from this same expedition group but I included him because he had been abandon by his Sherpa and had been rescued by members of Hall and Fischer’s team, he was the leader of the Taiwanese climbing group

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,

Two noticeably famous people who have climbed the ruthless mountain Everest, Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmand Hillary, are possibly the best 2 climbers that have been around, and If I had to choose between the two, I would pick Norgay. When deciding between the two I had to think about several things, and one of them is the advantages of having both people with myself. Nonetheless, I concluded that they were both bold and that they were willing to do anything to go 29,000 feet. They were both someone who knew about the land, and knew what to do, and not what to do. “At that great moment for which I had waited all my life, my mountain did not seem to me a lifeless thing of rock and ice, but warm and friendly and loving.” (Norgay Page 42) Even

The human race is guided through their lives by the past experiences of others; the survival of a species is dependent of the tales passed down. The tales of climbing are also passed down and to the ones that don’t make it, the deepest condolences go out to their families in rough times. To the guides and Sherpas of the Everest disaster who periled, they made the climb possible for twenty five others who were on the slopes. The guides and sherpas of any expedition deserve a lot of respect for the amount of expertise they share with the other climbers. To do this, sources such as Jon Krakauer’s book, Into Thin Air, personal websites of guides themselves, Tibet Travel, a source explaining the importance of Sherpas, and more will be used to highlight

In the year 1953, late May, two climbers finally reached the summit of their expeditions. Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay gazed down from the tallest summit on earth at the valleys surrounding them and sighed a breath of relief, as they were the first people to ever ascend the beast known as Everest. 46 years later Jon Krakauer’s book “Into Thin Air” tells of the harrowing and demanding road to the peak of Everest. I bet you are probably thinking what would prompt these smart men and women to put themselves into such a hard and narrowly survivable situation. In this paper we will go over a couple of the reasons that causes people to climb Everest. First personal achievement, Secondly glory and fame, and Third Adrenaline rush or The pull

Even though they were supplied with oxygen, everyone on the team experienced narcosis due to the high altitude, making it hard to think clearly. Krakauer, Hall, and a few others reached the summit of Everest at the turnaround time, but not everyone made it to the top. Once the team started climbing back down, they ran into Doug Hansen, a 46 year old that had previously climbed Mount Everest yet did not reach the summit, who was determined to reach the top this time. Hall took a gamble and decided to go back up to the summit with Hansen even though it was past the turnaround time, but Krakauer and the others continued their

In the article, “Anatoli Boukreev (Responds to Krakauer)”, it tells Boukreev’s perspective on what happened on Mount Everest on May 10, 1996. To begin with, Boukreev believes that John Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air” made him appear that his decisions were critically unjust. However, Boukreev believes that his actions were based upon 20 plus years of high altitude climbing experience; what he did was from all the experience he gained throughout his years. In addition, Boukreev states, “ i have summited Everest three times. I have twelve times summited mountains over 8,000 meters. I have summited seven of the world’s fourteen mountains over 8,000 meters in elevation, all of those without the use of supplementary oxygen.”(Para 2). Thus, Krakauer shouldn't

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?

Five climbers never made it back down. Yasako Namba, Andy Harris, Doug Hansen, Scott Fischer, and Rob Hall were all killed by the storm. Yasuko Namba was a Japanese climber, 47 years old. She is the oldest person ever to summit Mount Everest. Andy Harris was a New Zealand guide, he was 31 years old. Scott

The challenges that Conraf Anker faced in trying to make a documentary about George Mallory's climb were that he only had four cameramen and only two of those cameramen were expirienced climbers, so the two unexpierenced cameramen dropped out because they couldn't handle the high altitiudes. Also the other two expirienced cameramen had to drop out due to personal reasons. So this meant that the rest of the footage was shot by other climbers in the group with little camera expirience. Also when they reached the summit of the mountain it was moonson season, which only made things more

On May 10, 1996 six people died trying to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. These people were parts of two expeditions that were in the Himalayas, preparing to ascend the summit for six weeks. The first group was under the direction of Rob Hall, who had put 39 paying clients on the summit in five years. Hall was considered the leader of the mountain and the man to see no matter what the discrepancy. Group two, headed by Fisher, who like Hall, was trying to start a profitable business in providing the experience of climbing Mt. Everest to all for the price of 60 to 70 thousand dollars. Unfortunatly, neither man would live to tell the tale of this expedition.