The Factors That Created A Climate

In this Everest Simulation, I played the role as the physician in our team, a renowned medical professor and physician in the world. Although the physician has some mountain climbing experience before, but 8,000 meters is still an unprecedented challenge for him. The reason professor decided to take part in this Everest climbing trip was to take effort to a part of the professional research. So that, for the personal aspect, personal safety was more important than reach the summit. However, during this trip, the physician was the only person who has the ability to take care and give professional medical help to the group members. Actually, due to the unprofessional analysis of the assumed plateau situation and lack of the knowledge of medical

Success in the Mount Everest Simulation was not defined as reaching the summit of a mountain, but rather in terms of strong leadership, positive team work, logical decision making, and effective communication and dispute resolution to accomplish a specific task. Based on my personal experience, I realize the importance of knowing and understanding all team members. Fluid, open communication and positive feedback are key factors. Active listening, motivating, engaging, and valuing each team member’s contributions create an effective work environment. Mistakes happen, but valuable learning comes from the mistakes and our understanding of the challenges and opportunities to overcome them. If we, as team members, learn from our mistakes and are fully committed to the success of the team, we all

“After the expedition Lopsang insisted that at the last minute Hall and Fischer had simply scratched the plan to fix ropes in advance of their clients, because they'd received erroneous information that the Montenegrins had already completed the job as high

Leadership failure is rarely discussed, and yet often represents the greatest potential risk to an organization or group in an unfamiliar situation. For the Everest Simulation, I held the role of team leader, in which I was required to achieve goals relating to a combined ascent and maintaining team safety. At completion, 13 of 20 individual goals, and 65% of overall team goals were accomplished. The lower rate of success was due to several ethical and leadership related failures, resulting in a team member being evacuated on the final ascent. Although the simulation could have been more successful, the team dynamics witnessed were enlightening as to what constitutes effective leadership and ethical decision making in a high-intensity situation.

Rob Hall, the Kiwi guide of the Everest expedition group of Adventure Consultants, was the head guide during the terrible accidents of 1996. He led his team through many obstacles, facing them head on and never faltering until his last moments. Even in his dying breath he didn’t succumb to fear and didn’t want anyone to worry about him. Rob Hall would not leave Doug Hansen alone, even though he knew Hansen would die eventually, and didn’t desert him until there was a 100 percent certainty that Hansen was dead. Even though Hall himself had told all of the Adventure

Nevertheless, Krakauer hoped to conserve what little he had and asked his friend, Andy Harris, to turn his regulator down. Unfortunately, Krakauer soon realized that “Harris, in his hypoxically impaired state, had mistakenly cranked the valve open to full flow, draining the tank.” (Krakauer) With the declining amount of oxygen reaching the brain, climbers have trouble performing even the easiest tasks. Harris demonstrates the importance of using supplemental oxygen for his own health, but also the dangers it may have on his teammates. Harris’s hypoxic mistake caused Krakauer to panic and he slowly suffocated until he descended and retrieved a fresh tank of oxygen. Although Harris was not aware of his mistake, the lack of oxygen was changing the way he thought and reacted in certain situations, therefore posing a danger to his friends and teammates while in such an intense landscape. Andrew Bisharat, in his article “What’s the Big Deal About Climbing Everest Without Oxygen?” interviews former climbers of Everest and details their experiences while battling the bitter conditions. Bisharat

Krakauer also shows that the failure of the expedition is due to weak leadership. Teamwork and leadership can make or break an experience. Krakauer

After understanding and analyzing the tragedy of Everest, that took eight lives, we can conclude that the incident may occur due to several causes by nature or human error. The major factor that lead to this tragedy is the lack of team work and communication. Even though they were all in the same expedition, eager to reach the summit. While knowledge on humans behaving in extreme situations is limited, most of us believe we would not let someone die in the

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?

The Everest simulation was a unique experience. Before the actual simulation started, my team discussed the approach we would take and how we will deal with situations wherein the personal goals collided with the team goals. We shared our character profile information with each other and began the exercise with excitement and a firm resolve to do our best.

1 day- As the Earth rotates on its axis that creates seasonal variability, other factors that may impact the climate systems are volcanic aerosols which cool climate and shorten growing seasons. As the global radiation increased, so did the erythemal dose rate. As the hours the day began surface temperature would slowly rise and as the day ended the temperature went down. Climate is measured by devices used to track annual variability and climate patterns include thermometers, rain gauges, and stream gauges.

On the third day of the first Everest simulation, new information was given to each member. As the environmentalist, I was given the weather forecast chart which I have to analysis with the marathoner as to predict whether there was going to be a frost bite on the next day, deciding whether to proceed or remain at the camp. However, due to the lack of time and discussions, I did not tell others that I obtained such information. I did not notice until the second simulation that such information was critically important, without the weather chart our team could not decide whether to proceed or remain at camp. This demonstrates the lack of communication between team

The urgency to sell adventure to anyone who would pay or bring publicity was not the only stressor Hall and Fisher were under. Another factor was the amount of pressure on both of the guides to run a successful business. Although they were friends, they were also rivals. The previous year, Hall failed to actually get any of his clients to the top of the mountain. Fisher, while he was a well-respected climber and had even scaled Everest without oxygen, had never led a guided tour before. He was set on obtaining a few high-profile clients to get his business off the ground. Both men were under tremendous pressure to do well this season. This contributed to their decision to push past the deadlines to turn back, as well as to bring unprepared clients.

During the first climb on September 1st, 2014, the team is still scattered and the members are reluctant to share information and opinions. At the first stage of the Everest, our appointed leader, Rachel accidentally submitted the final decision, making the whole team

happens naturally sometimes due to the change in the earth's orbit (which does not cause greenhouse gasses but can still change the climate), but humans are tremendously speeding up the process. The greenhouse gas is released by fossil fuels or the harvest of oil. The effects of climate change are very horrible. The arctic and glaciers have melted making no homes for native wildlife such as polar bears. Also because of the melting the sea level will increase hugely and flood many areas, Such As florida, New york, New Orleans, San Francisco, Washington, Nile Delta, Netherlands, and last off venice.