Whitney's Dilemmas

Rangers could die trying to save the person’s life. Climbers know they are putting themselves at risk so why should they be able to put someone else’s life at risk. On June 21, 2012 two climbers fell into a crevasse while climbing Mount Rainier in Seattle. Park ranger Hall went up the 13,7000 foot mountain to go find them. When he

When people hike or do dangerous outdoor activities many people accomplish their desires but forthe most part they don’t quite understand how the wilderness is. They need rescuers to save their life. In the story “The cost of Survivor” they state , “Many rescue workers have lost their own life saving others.”. It shows that many people do not understand the risk to not only them but the rest of the rescuing team. People say that i is absurd to save someone who was conscious that their life was at risk and ignored it but it is only morally correct that you give them a second chance at life. Wilderness rescues are the most dangerous for the rescuers because it’s always weather-contingent. They could unbalance that at any moment they could all die. If you survive the catastrophe but someone died their is a chance that they would feel survivor guilt. It could turn their life upside down like the protagonist in the anecdote “The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt” because he felt like he should be the one

“Don't be afraid to have a reality check. Taking risks is OK, but you must be realistic.” Joy Mangano. This proves that although risk-taking can be accepted, you must be experienced in the risk that you’re taking in order to be safe. My first source, Helicopter Rescues Increasing on Everest

This is corresponding to today’s community because if the climbers are unskilled and they are not sure about safety, then they must not go mountain climbing, if they die their family and friends will be sad also the rescuer may die too. There have been over 230 deaths on the mountain. It’s very dangerous! what if the accident happen? People never know what will happen in the future. Think before you do something! Undoubtedly, people do not have the right to rescue services when they put themselves at

David Harold Fink once said “You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do”. However, in some cases Fink is wrong. Sometimes people don’t have an option to not do what they don’t want to do. They are impotent to take place when deciding. This usually happens in

If people are charged for search and rescue maybe they will be more careful out in the wilderness. By calling someone for help you aren't the only one in danger anymore; You are now endangering them as well. Some may say people should be given the right to free SAR so people won't be afraid to call for help even if they can’t afford them but this isn’t fair to the people who answer the call. What about the lives of the people that come to rescue them? What about their lives. For example one ranger who died trying to save someone was “Nick Hall...On June 21, Hall and other rangers were assisting climbers who were injured at 13,800 feet on the Emmons Glacier section of the mountain. After helping them into a rescue helicopter, he was trying to secure an empty litter in high winds when he fell 2,500 feet onto the Winthrop Glacier”(Davidson 2012). If these people knew they would be charged maybe they wouldn’t make the mistake of climbing the mountain without knowing the dangers. This is why people should have to pay for their own SAR because by trying to save people, people put their own lives in big

This ethical scenario presents an 86 year old female with numerous health issues and chronic illnesses. Mrs. Boswell’s advancing Alzheimer’s disease makes it extremely difficult to initiate dialysis, leading her physician to conclude a poor quality of life. The ethical dilemma portrayed in this case is between nonmaleficence and autonomy. Health care workers should focus on promoting the patient’s overall wellbeing and weigh the benefits and risks of the course of action, while also considering what the family declares they want done. Since the patient is deemed unable to make decisions, the goal is to collaborate with family, assess patient quality of life, address prognosis, and establish realistic care goals.

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

In Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, a Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer explains his encounter with the great Mt. Everest. As a child, Jon Krakauer longed for climbing, yet he never envisioned that this one ascension would be a calamity. Krakauer was doled out by Outside Magazine to write about the business undertakings that were being directed on Mount Everest in May 1996. Jon Krakauer, the storyteller and creator, depicts a direct record of this disastrous voyage. Krakauer, his aide, and a gathering of climbers set out to the highest point of Mt. Everest to perceive how dangerous or safe it was to handle the world's biggest mountain. Lamentably, 1996 was Everest's most exceedingly bad season ever, and Krakauer describes the

The historical agency was obviously Eli Whitney. Eli was just like a normal person in today’s society; he graduated from college and had to repay all of his debts, so just like what everyone else would do, he got a job. So he packed up his things and got a

Hello, I am Eli Whitney, and I was born on December 8th, 1765. During this time most people in our country worked at farming for a living, being similar I lived on a farm in Massachusetts. The richest people were those who owned a lot of land, but my family did not. At the young age of fourteen I was fortunate enough to be helping my father to make nails in his workshop. I was making a moderate pay for a fourteen year old. As the years progressed, I began to think more about my future. After I was denied permission for college by my stepmother, I decided to accomplish getting there by myself. Through difficult farm labor and time spent teaching in schools I was finally able to pay my admission for college. I enrolled at the Yale College

Make them pay! If the rescuee pays for their mistakes, they will be much less likely to do it again. If society paid for the rescue services, the rescuee would continue to do illegal activities, knowing that they wouldn’t have to pay a penny. Other people would also be less tempted to do stupid things if they knew they had to pay. People who know they could not afford the rescue services would not do dangerous, risky things. In paragraph 4 of the essay ‘Who Should Pay for the Costs of Rescue Services?’ by Steve Casimiro, it states,” … heedless behavior will cost a monetary arm and a leg instead of a real limb…provide a kind of universal insurance but discourage abuse.” This seems like a problem-free solution,

Jason Lhotka was 37 years old when he died of an altitude-related illness while on a GeoEx expedition up Mount Kilimanjaro with his mother, plaintiff Sandra Menefee.1 GeoEx's limitation of liability and release form, which both Lhotka and Menefee signed as a requirement of participating in the expedition, provided that each of them released GeoEx from all liability in connection with the trek and waived any claims for liability “to the maximum extent permitted by law.” The release also required that the parties would submit any disputes between themselves first to mediation and then to binding arbitration.

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.

With death being an inevitable conclusion to life, it can be said that the true value of a life is not determined by how long it was lived or what was done during its time, but from what it left behind. In a sport of pushing the physical and psychological boundaries, climbers seek recognition in their achievements, whether it is by finding a new climb that will measure its test of time or being the first to climb a daunting line