Mount Everest: Outweigh The Perils Of Mountaineering Or Transcending?

Imagine yourself climbing Everest, the cold air in your lungs and your adrenaline rushing, because of the risk they’re taking. That feeling is what mountaineers crave. On April 18, 2014, an avalanche caused one of the greatest loss of life in the history of the fabled peek. Now the tragedy has sparked a debate on whether climbing Mt. Everest should continue to be permitted. In my opinion, regardless of the risk, I think people should still be able to climb Mt. Everest.

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?

As much as I thought that the first chapter should have been removed, the book, overall, changed the way I viewed Mount Everest. The novel helps to understand that there is much more than just climbing up and down. For instance, when Krakauer talks about expenses and equipment, he says, “That autumn the ministry raised the permit fee again to fifty thousand dollars plus ten thousand dollars for each additional climber.” This shows that there is an extensive amount of planning and equipment to be covered. Krakauer also tells that a storm on Everest can be much more deadly than a storm at sea level. At the end of chapter twenty, he says, “Brice Herrod is now presumed dead, the twelfth casualty of the season.” Its descriptions like these which make me view Everest as both a great challenge, but also a potential deathtrap.

Before reading this book, I had already been aware of the countless dangers of Mt. Everest. Last summer I read a book about Mt. Everest much like this one in the state that both were spoken through personal accounts, and both used constant detail to express the horrible and painful experiences that both authors had to go through. This prior knowledge helped better my understanding of this book because I was aware of the common occurrences that can take place while climbing Mt. Everest, and the gruesome circumstances that go with it. During the eighth chapter, readers become aware of a horrible condition that a character is dealing with. “By the time he arrived at the tents late that afternoon Ngawang was delirious, stumbling like a drunk, and coughing up pink, blood-laced froth” (Krakauer 113).

At first, Jon thinks the mountain is elementary and over embellished. He says, “…to denigrate Everest as a slag heap"-a peak lacking sufficient technical challenges or aesthetic appeal to be a worthy objective for a "serious" climber, which I desperately aspired to be” (23). After the tragic expedition, Jon realizes that climbing Mount Everest is no easy task, and is extremely dangerous. He says, “Truth be told, climbing Mount Everest has always been an extraordinarily dangerous undertaking and doubtless always will be…climbing mountains will never be a safe, predictable, rule bound enterprise” (287). At the end of this novel, Jon changes his perspective, eventually understanding the danger that Mount Everest can

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

The Dangers of Mount Everest and How to Be Safe When Encountering the Dangers By: Prisha Patel

Since 1922, more than two hundred seventy- five people have died attempting trying to get to the peak of Mount Everest and, interestingly enough, a record twenty-two people died in 2015 according to the website, The Daily Mail. 2015 was also a year that no one had made it to the summit which has not happened since 1975. According to BBC news more people have been dieing close to the summit.The past few years it sims that mount Everest has been more treacherous to climb.More climbers are dieing than making it to the summit this past few years. Mount climbers have been climbing mountains since the beginning of time, but, unfortunately, there have been many tragic accidents in the past few years because many people have unrealistic expectations about how difficult and dangerous mountain climbing truly is .

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.

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

Although people say to shut down Everest because they don’t want their loved ones dying of a horrible death,(Source two), it still won’t be easy for the people who do want to take risks. Since 16 people died on Everest people have been arguing if they should or should not close down Everest. However everytime there is a death, we as people can learn from the mistakes and make Everest better and safer. In my opinion, the people on Everest did know the risks of climbing that mountain. However, other people want to shut down Everest because of different reasons, not just because the number of lives that have been lost, because people say that Everest needs to “ rest

Everest gave me a lot of information of different things happening on Mt. Everest. There are a lot of storms on the mountain, and the mountain makes it’s own weather. Climbing Mt. Everest I would never know when a storm would hit. I would just have to make a guess by what the weather looks like at the time. I would need lots of oxygen. Oxygen is one of the most important tools to have on the climb of Mt. Everest. Especially when you get to the death zone, because my body would be dying at that point of the mountain, and I would die if I didn't have any oxygen. The movie also showed me no matter how much of an experienced climber I could be, you can always get lost easily. The same goes with death. I could be the world's best mountain climber, but when it comes to Mt. Everest I could die any moment on that mountain if I’m not careful. Death is an important issue if I am climbing Mt. Everest. Lots of people die climbing the mountain. It would be hard to climb the mountain with my family. It would be a very traumatic vacation to do with my family. If I was to climb Mt. Everest it would have to be with people that are not in my family circle. It would be very sad to see my family suffer through all the hard and painful things to experience to get to the top of the mountain. Getting to the top is harder than it looks. I watched the movie Mt. Everest, and people lost their hands, nose, and even their lives. It would take a lot of heart and dedication to

The issue of Mt.Everest and whether it should be open to the public or not is an issue that has recently risen as many mountaineers do not like the idea of it as it is an exhilarating thing to do that gives them a sense of achievement and although there are many risks and challenges people enjoy the activity and believe that it should stay open to the public. Mountaineering as of recent years has gotten much safer as they now use steroids and bottled oxygen because of the high altitude. It is becoming safer may not necessarily be a good thing as it is also very expensive, as in the second source they state that “Each and every one of them had paid $10,000 for a climbing permit” and even after having to pay a large amount of money for simply a climbing permit they run a great risk of death.

For my first reason people could die from people causing trouble on Everest.What could go wrong is avalanches, big rocks falling down on people, and animals like the snow leopard Himalayan black bear and the red panda.the air at the summit is really thin.So you have an oxygen mask to breath.The carabeiners could break killing the climbers on the rescue line.You could also get hape if you didn't have the proper training.

Mount Everest is the biggest mountain in the world, and because of that attracts many climbers to try and climb all 29,029 feet of it, but think about all the trash they leave behind while climbing. In 2013 4,000 people have reached Everest’s summit, with many more attempting to. Mount Everest has a natural beauty, one that should be preserved, and people climbing the mountain and leaving their garbage on it is ruining it. Climbers have a negative impact on Mount Everest, and while journeying to the top, they are slowly destroying the mountain.