What Are The Themes In Roland Smith's Peak

10 feet from the top of the deadliest mountain in the world, a mountain that captivated thousands of people over centuries, 14-year-old Peak Marcello is about to become the youngest climber ever to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. However, Peak suddenly stops and doesn’t go to the summit. Instead, he helps his friend Sun-jo gets there first so Sun-jo becomes the youngest climber to reach Mt. Everest. Peak helped Sun-jo achieve fame and glory by reaching the mountain, yet he had not. What happened that made Peak make this decision? The author of the novel Peak, Roland Smith shows Peak as a self-centered boy who realizes that doing the right thing is more important that any accomplishment.

Standing at an astounding height of 29,028 feet above sea level, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people to ever successfully climb to the summit of Mt. Everest. After the men climbed Everest, both men wrote about their experiences during their journey, Tenzing wrote The Dream Comes True and Hillary wrote The View From the Summit. Both of the stories are incredibly similar, but contain some very controversial differences, like the size of the gap, whether or not the two men helped the other equally, and whether or not one struggled more than the other. Near the end of the story when they are facing their last big challenge the two men had to climb up a large rock

The book "Within Reach: My Everest Story" by Mark Pfetzer wand Jack Galvin is an autobiography written by Mark Pfestzer at the age of 16. Mark writes about his mountain climbing adventures over a 4 year period that started at the age of 12. The book covers the years of Mark's life mountain climbing from 1992 all the way up to 1996 when Mark is actually climbing on Mount Everest. The chapters in the book are written in a first person narrative with a dated diary format. Each one of Mark's entries talks about his struggles, adventures and personal experiences with the challenges of climbing a mountain.

As said by Zopa, “You can never tell who the mountain will allow, and who it will not.” Peak needs to reach the top of the mountain as soon as possible, before he turns 15, in order to break the world record of having the youngest person reach above 29,000 feet. To do this, though, he endangers his life with the cold, getting oxygen, and just the climb itself. As they say, “Climb high, sleep low,” to get acclimatized, that way your lungs will be caught up with your body, or else they would collapse and you could come down with a serious case of HAPE. With the climb itself, Peak faces quite a few difficulties. At one point, when he was climbing up a steep slope with his axes, one of Sun-Jo’s slipped, and he was dangling. But, being the hero he is, Peak climbed sideways towards the rope that was hanging there, grabbed it, and swung down to Sun-Jo, saving him just as his crampon was slipping. There were other things like avalanches that happened, but the most killer thing was the so called death zone. In it, you have to get in and out in under 18 hours, or else you will meet certain death. Oxygen or not, there’s only a certain time limit you can survive it. Of course Peak made it out in time, but he did not, in fact, reach the summit, which was actually rather

The first person in the novel Peak who demonstrated a great deal of courage was Sun-Jo’s father, Kitar. Sun-Jo is a Nepalese boy, only six days older than Peak, who climbs the mountain with Peak. He is Peak’s competitor and friend. Zopa who is an retired sherpa who is described with this quote. “If he agrees to something he’ll do it, but he may not be doing it for the reason you think he's doing it. And he’ll never let you know why he’s doing

Mount Everest at 29,000 feet is the world’s largest mountain making it one of the deadliest mountains in the world, and a young 14 boy named peak is about to climb it ! Roland Smith (born November 30, 1951) is an American author of young adult fiction as well as nonfiction books for children, (Roland smith wrote the novel Peak). Peak is brave, Peak has courage, Peak shows perseverance. Peak possesses respect.

The book Peak is all about a fourteen-year-old boy named Peak that gets in trouble by attempting to climb a skyscraper in New York. As punishment, he is forced to live with his father that he barely knows anything about. Peak ends up traveling across the world for the chance to become the youngest person to summit Mount Everest.

Regionalism is a key element throughout this novel. Mount Everest is one of the only actual settings in the book, and is crucial to the storyline. It is important to know that the mountain is the tallest on Earth; this will help the reader understand how treacherous the climb will be for the author and his crew. From this passage, we learn that although Krakauer always thought that climbing Everest would be one of the biggest and accomplished moments of his life, but his experience was completely destroyed by what the reader assumes as a sort of tragedy. This gives the reader a negative view of the mountain throughout the book because of the disaster that will eventually occur on

“A trans-like state settles over your efforts, the climb becomes a clear eyed dream.” Stated Krakauer in The Devils Thumb. Mountain climbing has become a popular interest for thrill-seekers in modern times. It is an immensely challenging activity, involving strength, determination, and the proper mindset. There are many accounts of mountain climbers heroically reaching the summit of mountains, but none more striking than that of Everest and The Devils Thumb. These are gut wrenching, first hand accounts of some of the greatest feats performed in mountain climbing history, although they are each different in their own way. Krakauer was climbing to find himself amongst the frozen rocks and chest deep snow, and Weihnmayer climbed to push his limits, and to accomplish what many thought to be the impossible.

As Tom and Brendan talk about plans for their future climb of Mount Everest, Tom reaches the top of the hill with ease, this symbolic moment allows Tom to reflect of his transition personally and how important his relationships with Brendan and Chrissy have been in supporting him. Tom’s thoughts of “shedding with each kilometre, like layers of skin falling onto the track” as he runs with Brendan is a simile which allows the reader to understand how Tom is feeling and the relief of not having the weight on his shoulders anymore. This achievement and realisation symbolises the growth and change in values and perspective of self that have been achieved through the support of new relationships which have allowed Tom to overcome past events.

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.

“Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed” (14)

Have you ever wondered what kind of hardships come with climbing the tallest mountain in the world before? Expectantly, the book Peak by Roland Smith and the movie Everest have a lot of similarities with some exceptionally prominent differences. From personal conflict and character conflict to the general aspect of climbing Mt. Everest, the book and the movie explore all different types of similarities and differences. Being similar, in both the movie and the book, the mountain always decides. The morals were constant and everyone experiences the same deal in similar ways. One significant difference came between Peak, the main character in the book, and Rob(5th summit attempt), the main character in the movie.

Many people have dreamed of climbing the tallest mountain on earth, Mount Everest. However one must possess certain physical and mental attributes to accomplish this giant feat. “Courage is not having the strength to go on: it's going on when you don't have the strength.” Ed Viesturs knows first-hand what having courage is all about although you’ve used all your strength. He kept going to reach his goal even after he faced life threatening obstacles.

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