The Importance Of Knowing Personal Limits Of Mount Everest

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

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.

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

Despite his impressive record he had never attempted anything close to the scale of Everest, whose summit is at an extremely dangerous altitude. He even admits to his relative inexperience with high altitude saying, “Truth be told, I’d never been higher than 17,200 feet--not even as high as Everest Base Camp”(28). Krakauer also mentions how he has gotten out of shape over the years partially because of the lack of climbing in his life, making him even less prepared for the assent. Krakauer shows a definite fear of such a high mountain, referring to climbers who have perished in the past. He states that, “Many of those who died had been far stronger and possessed vastly more high-altitude experience than I.” (28). Even though Krakauer’s experience may be more relevant to the Everest assent than some of the other tourist climbers, it is nowhere near the level needed to be considered an elite climber.

Even though the climbers understood that climbing is no easy task to accomplish, they witnessed miracles that only humans can perform such as that of Beck Weathers still being alive after becoming blind in his right eye with no one to watch after him as he started walking in the wrong direction (316). While preparing for and being on this mountain climb, the mountain trekkers experienced emotions only humans facing struggles can feel with such intensity. The author experienced determination when he wished to quench is mountain-climbing thirst even with his few credentials and he felt belief as he wore a Xi-stone and hoped his partner Doug would reach the summit with him (113, 159). The author, who probably never felt these human emotions on a regular basis with such fervor, only experienced them when he was faced with the struggle of climbing Everest. As the author climbed Everest, he realized several things that he would not have had he not climbed Everest. When forced to be the ice chopper in place of a Sherpa, Krakauer understood that even as he goes under gruesome conditions as a climber, and life in general, some people have to do even more labor than he

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

Numerous climbers have experienced the harsh effects of high altitudes when traveling up mountains due to the lack of oxygen and

When climbing a dangerous mountain such as Mount Everest, the ascender is bound to face challenges such as weather, oxygen, and food supply. I identify with Jon Krakauer in his memoir Into Thin Air because of his problem solving skills towards conflicts. Krakauer was a climber who had little experience at high altitudes, however, he ascended Everest for a report in “Outside” magazine. During the expedition, he faced many challenges. One of the most significant conflicts took place at the summit, but he overcame it. Granted, my struggle was not as challenging as Krakauer’s, I can still relate to these problem solving qualities greatly.

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.

Climbing Mount Everest is a bad idea because the climbers can fall or get sick from the different altitudes that there might be everywhere in

Many people question whether or not the perils of mountaineering or extreme mountain climbing, such as climbing Mount Everest, outweigh the benefits. Mount Everest enthusiast have recently been debating whether or not the negatives of mountaineering outweigh the positives. If they decide the negatives are greater than the benefits, they may close Mount Everest from the public to be able to make a more informed decision, and if they decide the negatives aren’t greater than the positives, then they will keep Mount Everest open. In my point of view, the negatives of mountaineering outweigh the positives or negatives for reasons that include, cost, death, and religious importance.

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In the wake of the 1996 disasters, a doctor decided to perform an experiment that required him to follow a team of hikers to measure for the first time, the toll high-altitude climbing takes on the heart, lungs, blood, and brain. I thought it appropriate to incorporate some of the evidence acquired from the studies done by the group, seeing as the interest for this experiment was triggered by the tragic events that had materialized on Mount Everest May of 1996. The program is a first scientific study I have seen on what occurs in human body when it is steadily experiencing this type of stress. The program shows what happens to the awareness and physical ability in low oxygen pressure. While superficially seeming to be normal, under intense testing done by the researchers, it is clear that there stands weakening in the hiker’s brain capacity to process information.

Although climbing does not directly relate to employment because they are not technically hired on to make the climb. However, human resource is defined as finding, developing, and keeping the right person to form a qualified workforce. In climbing Mount Everest, the people should be selected based off of their physical health and group dynamic rather than how much money they pay. There was not really a selection process to the climb because the people were picked based off the desire to climb and on how much money they had. With jobs there are selection processes involving the skills the future employer has. Why should someone be able to go on a risky expedition just because they can afford it? The people should have been