Chapter five They leave the snow hole in the morning. Joe abseils down a cliff, he falls down the east face and breaks his leg. Simon tries to help him get down to the camp. He abseils Joe down a few ledges. Joe tells simon to slow down but he cant hear him.
Airplanes. Window seats. Wilderness. Just a few of my favorite things, Melanie thought quietly to herself while flying over Canada. Staring out the window, gazing at snow-covered mountains that looked like they were peeking into the clouds, she tried to remember how long it had been since she last saw
They have to walk for about 2 weeks to get to Base Camp. They go through the ice and go up to Base Camp 1. Jabion, his Sherpa friend, helps climb with him. Scott Fischer and Rob Hall, pretty famous climbers are climbing Everest at the same time, They go together to Camp 3. Mark decides to go out the next day, but there is a huge storm. 2 people have died on Everest already. Mark goes down without summiting, full of disappointment. He slides down, loaded up with all of the equipment. His ribs start to hurt, adjusting to the elevation. Mark gets a call from his father saying he had an infection that turned into cancer. The doctors got all of the cancer out. Mark starts crying, and his father wants him to get home as quick as
“Over here!” Lori called to her friend, Kayla as she was trudging below the blazing hot Arizona sun. After looking up and seeing Lori, Kayla shouted “Coming!” while jogging happily to greet her best friend. Both girls were looking forward to this get together because they were planning on
My phone hit the floor when travel companion and sweepstakes winner Jack Johnston invited me on an all-expenses-paid Mount Logan expedition from Explorer. As avid climbers, this was the opportunity we’ve been training for but assumed was years within reach. Suddenly, it was right in front of us. Within 48 hours we were driving to Kluane National Park and Reserve with a box of granola and truck full of gear.
Day Eight: Morning comes, and they start their hike. The group makes it up a third of the way, until they reach the ladders the have to cross, witch is one of the most dangerous parts of the journey. Sadly, Nichilas Jeager didn’t make it. The most experienced climber has fallen off the ladder. They continue their climb, and finally make it to Camp Two. Two more camps to get to with one climber dead, on the surface of the tallest mountain in the world, trying to get to the summit.
Whenever they made it to the cave Junior, Kayla, and Elizabeth didn’t want to go in the cave first because of the stories they heard. Tyler, being impertinent,lead the others through
After they spent an hour doing the last step of the tent, they finally got everything set up. When the sun set, they decided to start a campfire. After a few drinks, they heard a noise behind a tree. Dan decided to quickly check to see if someone was there. After 20 minutes, they started to worry about Dan. Before they all decided to
They place their foot on the rock and step up. The cold air was hitting their face and they could hear the wind blowing past them. They continue to climb and Hailey thinks to herself wow this isn’t so bad. They climb for 10 more minutes and Hailey begins to panic as the get higher. Hailey looks down and realizes how far up she is. She begins to panic and gives Alyssa a terrified look.
“I just don’t love you anymore Laura, it’s really not that hard to understand that I love someone else.”
Three. Two. One, Launch! Our car kicks upwards, then tears down the track, threatening to flip in its maniacal speed. I’m competing in “Scambler”, an event at the national Science Olympiad competition where I build a car that gets an egg as close to a wall as possible and as fast as possible. A meter from the wall, the car hits its breaks, but it keeps moving, leaving black marks in the floor as its wheels grind against the ground. And yet, a hair’s breadth before the wall, the car stops. The run leaves the egg 5 millimeters away from the wall in under 4 seconds. Surely good enough for top 6 in the nation.
Micah will freely admit that she’s a compulsive liar, but that may be the one honest thing she’ll ever tell you. Over the years she’s duped her classmates, her teachers, and even her parents, and she’s always managed to stay one step ahead of her lies. That is, until her boyfriend dies under brutal circumstances and her dishonesty begins to catch up with her. But is it possible to tell the truth when lying comes as naturally as breathing? Taking readers deep into the psyche of a young woman who will say just about anything to convince them—and herself—that she’s finally come clean, Liar is a bone-chilling thriller that will have readers see-sawing between truths and lies right up to the end.
“He knew he must find his way through that cave, or hole, or tunnel, and out the other side” (Lessing 98). After Jerry found the opening of the cave, he was determined to find his way out the other side. For the remainder of his vacation, every free minute he had was going to the ocean and working on holding his breath. However, this task may sound easy, Jerry had a hard time accomplishing his goal. He got many nose bleeds and many times he contemplated giving up on his goal. He had a very hard time learning to hold his breath long enough to get through the tunnel and back up into the air. Jerry thought about giving up on his goal many times. When the boys came back and he saw them jumping off the cliff, he thought that he might not be good enough to make it under the rock. The last day of his vacation Jerry knew that it had to be the day that he would go under the rock. When he went to the bottom of the rock, he started to go through the tunnel. About halfway through the tunnel, Jerry’s lungs started to burn and his nose started to bleed. When his lungs began to burn with lack of oxygen, he started to doubt that he was going to make it out of the tunnel. However, he kept pushing through the tunnel thinking that he would either die trying or be able to get through the tunnel and up into the atmosphere. When Jerry is almost at the point of needing
Frigid air from the mountains slam our faces as we look around the jeep searching for what could have went wrong. As I inspect the tires I noticed a growing hole on my side. “Must have been when we hit the rock a few miles ago,” I signed in disbelief. I slide my phone out of my thin jacket pocket to find I had no cellular reception this high into the mountains. David and I decided to set on foot to search for help. We hiked through the unknown wilderness until we stumbled upon the abandoned ski village.
“Avalanche Take Cover!” One day a girl and her friend had a tragic event that they would never forget. On a foggy wet winter day. It was dark and the wind would give you chills up your back. I was at my friends house for the night, and the wind