Mount Everest And The Seven Natural Wonders Of The World

Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world and commonly considered the most dangerous to climb. So, is climbing this magnificent mountain worth it? What are some of the risks taken if someone were willing to climb the mountain and why would anyone want to do so? Last but not least, what are some of the pros and cons of scaling this large mountain that only a few can say they accomplished in their lives? Well in many people’s minds these thoughts soar, and today all of these questions might finally have an answer.

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.

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

First, let's start with the pros. The first pro is that you gain fame. You are known in the world for climbing the mountain. Another pro is that you are known for accomplishing a big accomplishment. And the last pro is that you can gain strength. If you can climb a mountain, then you can climb anything and any hard task will be easy for you. To sum up there are some pros on climbing Mount Everest.

Why is Mount Everest so dangerous? The people who want to climb Mount Everest are aware of the risk… But actually, the risk is part of the attraction for some people. Not everyone can manage the treacherous climb. In fact, some people pay with their lives for climbing Mount Everest. Everest is 29,035 feet from its base to its peak. The people who climb Everest are very skilled. People do not have the right to rescue services when they put themselves at risk because, they are making a life threatening risk to themselves and they are also making a risk to the people who are trying to save them.

In examining the information from the book called Into Thin Air I found it useful to collect some of my own historical information about the mysterious and magnificent Mount Everest. Named after a retired British Survey General, George Mallory Everest. Despite the mountain already being called Chomolungma by the Tibetans and Sagarmatha by the Nepalese. In 1856 the British decided to name the mountain after Colonel George Everest, head of the survey (Davis, 69-73). Discovered back in 1852 to be the highest mountain in the world, it draws its victims in with its beauty, magnetism and power. Hundreds have lost their lives on this incredible mountain, Mount Everest continues to make history with the greatest one day death tolls increasing year after year with more and more mountaineers ready to conquer

People are willing to pay up to seventy thousand dollars to be guided up the mountain, Nepal and the guides rely on this money meaning they will allow anyone to attempt to scale the mountain no matter how out of shape or unfit for the trek the are for the right amount of money. In chapter one Jon wonders to himself, “Why did veteran Himalayan guides keep moving upward, ushering a gaggle of relatively inexperienced amateurs—each of whom had paid as much as $65,000 to be taken safely up Everest—into an apparent death trap?” Jon questions why these well experienced guides take these amateurs on the journey knowing most of them are not physically prepared or ready to complete the trek. This question in a way haunts Jon throughout the novel. This shows that even Jon realizes that the whole thing is being controlled by greed because Nepal and the guides will allow anyone up the mountain for the right amount of

"Hall was charging $65,000 a head to guide clients to the top of the world." (Krakauer 35) It proves that people are willing to pay a significant amount of money to endure all of the pain associated with climbing Mt. Everest, most likely for fame and recognition. Very few people have climbed Everest and a person who climbs it will instantly become popular until the next person completes the expedition. It does not make people think of the risks versus rewards of their decisions and can lead into serious consequences like they will experience throughout the novel.

Mount Everest, part of the Himalayan mountain range, is the highest mountain in the world with an elevation of 29,029 feet. More than 4,400 climbers have reached the peak since Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, first "summited" it in 1953. Edmund Hillary, a

Is Mount Everest Worth the Risk? Mount Everest. It is 29,029 feet tall, and the tallest mountain in the world. Yet people still try to climb it, and that is a very dangerous thing to do. There are avalanches and very dangerous weather that could kill anyone and has killed people before!

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.

Did you know that more people die than succeed while attempting to climb Mt. Everest? There are many people who are opposed to having people climb the mountain and who are trying to close the mountain to climbers. However, people should be able to climb Everest. If it were to be closed there would be great consequences. First, it would severely affect all of the towns surrounding Everest by taking those jobs away from the Sherpa’s who help the climbers carry their stuff. Second, those who attempt and succeed in getting to the top of Everest feel accomplished and feel good about what they accomplished. Without being able to climb the mountain, there would be a huge amount of people disappointed that they would never be able to achieve that

There are many dangers on Everest such as, avalanches, cravasses, strong winds, steepness, and thin air. Bill Burke is a 69 year old mountain climber. At the age of 67, Bill decided on taking on the ultimate challenge of climbing the great Mount Everest. Although he has climbed other mountains before, such as Mount Rainier and Mount McKinley, Mount Everest would be much more challenging due to its height and dangers. On Bill’s attempt to summit Everest, he would like to find different paths along the mountain.

Not only climbing Mount Everest can affect the climber, environment, but it can affect the local population of Nepal. According to the textbook Geography Alive! Regions and People it says on page 422 “ Porters are sometimes overworked and they are mistreated.” It is clearly testified that not everyone is nice to the porters, when they are only trying to help the climber climb safe to the summit. Another evidence, on page 216 from the book Peak, where it says “I had seen a dead person, let alone a frozen dead person.” Peak has testified that he saw a corpse just laying down face down on the cold snow on camp 4. This was new to him because he was not expecting this new thing for him. Concluding with this, climbing Mount Everest is not the best

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.