Nimi Sherpas In Into Thin Air

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

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

In 1996, any person could challenge themselves to climb Mt. Everest, and that was not a very smart decision. “...ushering a gaggle of relatively inexperienced amateurs […] into an apparent death trap?”(1.8) This speaks about how the government rules were so lenient that people would walk in just to find themselves dead. People without the proper training and vitals such as immune system were able to risks their lives for an achievement. There should be some type of background check to see who is a caple to climb the mountain because people will die, such as they did die. Nepal was careless to let people who aren't up or ready for the risks up the

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

Instead of risking their lives for their own glory, they do it to help others reach the summit and for the benefits that follow. Besides a natural love for climbing mountains, finances push them to attempt these expeditions over and over. There are reasons guides like Andy Hall feel high pressure to succeed and as Krakauer explains,, “he was savvy enough to understand that the more attention he got from the news media, the easier it would be to coax corporations to open their checkbooks” (32). Hall uses his media attention to fund trips to Mt. Everest and would do whatever it took to help an important climber reach the top and which is essentially where he finds his sense of accomplishment and media attention. Guides like Scott Fischer have to make a name for themselves first, and initially might do so unsafely. Don Peterson speaks of Fischer with awe, proclaiming, “It didn’t matter how much pain he was in- he would ignore it and keep going,” referring to Scott Fischers six months of traveling with “an open suppurating wound” (63). It is possible that with such desperation to succeed and be well known as a climber, guides would risk their lives by ignoring injuries and health. Its evident that even the most skilled still face challenges but continue to pursue a dangerous lifestyle for

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

This novel takes you from the base of Everest to the summit and then back down again. Each camp and elevation brings new people and challenges. Jon Krakauer is a journalist recruited to write an article about the commercialisation of Everest, little did he know that the weeks that followed would haunt him forever. Even with experienced guides, Sherpas and climbers an unexpected and violent storm turns a smooth expedition into a chaotic disaster.

Summiting Mount Everest is 29,029 feet of nausea-inducing, bone-chilling, and stupefying adrenaline. Annually, thrill seekers from all over the world travel to Nepal to climb the world’s tallest mountain to obtain the feeling of pride, achievement, and fulfillment. However, are the consequences of risking your life worth those intangible sentiments? Officials and mountaineers argue whether to keep Everest open or closed for a three-year break because of the recent large number of deaths. Keeping Everest open causes cold-related diseases, or even death while attempting to climb it.

One reason why those who need help should be rescued is because climbers pay a lot of money to go climbing. The author in the story "Why Everest?" Says that they pay … "thousands of dollars … for a permit". ("Guy Moreau").This quote shows that they should be rescued because they pay a lot of money for permits to climb the mountain, that money should also go to the rescue cost. Even though climbers put themselves in danger they paid a lot of money for the permit to climb the mountain.

Climbers pay lots of amounts of money to climb famous mountains and try to make it to the top. Unfortunately some people have not made it. This is why climbers should have a right to rescue services.

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

Letting a loved one attempt to climb to the top of Mt. Everest is something to worry about everyday. Due to many reasons such as limited oxygen, and also not knowing when something bad is coming towards the way of the sherpas and cause madness. Identically, according to AP the avalanche existed when “a massive piece of glacier sheared away from the mountain along a section of constantly shifting ice...known as the Khumbu Icefall---a treacherous area where overhanging immensities of ice as large as 10 storey buildings..” (Morrow 11). Moreover, in the article “Exploiting The Sherpas”, there are also many concerns with the safety of the sherpas, life insurance benefits, and the concerns for the dead. To begin with, the safety of the sherpas isn’t payed attention to, while climbing mountains. The wealthy climbers don’t care that the sherpas are being put onto a dangerous job. What the people really care about is just getting to the top of Mt. Everest to give the media something to talk about. For instance, “Sherpas are placed in dangerous situations so that wealthy, novice climbers can summit the world’s most famous and romanticized mountain” (Mandelbaum 2). Sherpas are basically paying for their

They not only carrying your supplies but they are also putting themselves at risk. Out of all the money made in Nepal the government pockets about 20million dollars. “The Nepalese government pockets nearly $20 million in permit fees and ancillary economic benefits from Everest climbing industry” (Mandelbaum 1). The amount of money the government is taking from the Everest climbing industry is very unfair to sherpas because they do not receive anything if they are injured . Some sherpas don’t even return home and they leave their families in an economic situation. For example, sherpas fear they might be injured.” constant fear of being killed or disabled or disabled and leaving their family in economic crisis” (Morrow 2). Sherpas are not making enough money they should be making for risking their lives for other to climb Everest. “Nepal, one of the world’s poorest countries, has become economically dependent on tourism” (Mandelbaum 1). Since Nepal is the poorest it explains why each person is being charged between $40,000 to $100,000 for an expedition on Everest with a sherpa. “According to National Geographic, the sherpa are forced to make the dangerous journey” (Morrow 3). These people really have no choice, they have to make the risky journey to make at least some money since the government has taken most of

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.