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    means you shouldn’t give up on anything and keep trying. Tenzing Norgay is an example,he was fearful of climbing Everest but held on and was the first in history to summit. Tenzing Norgay is one of the best mountain climbers of all time. Tenzing Norgay was the first person to summit Everest along with Sir Edmund Hillary. He summited during the John Hunt expedition. Norgay summited in 1953 at age 39. Norgay’s son Jamling Tenzing Norgay has also summited Everest. People die very often while attempting

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    Tenzing Norgay “With courage you will dare to take risks.” With bravery you will challenge yourself to the extreme. Tenzing Norgay risked his life to be the first to successfully summit Mt. Everest. Tenzing Norgay’s family estimated that Tenzing was born on May 29, 1914 in Khumbu, Nepal. Norgay was raised in Thami, Nepal with his 12 siblings. Tenzing was married three times. The first time he was married to Dawa Phuti and had three kids, Nima Dorje, who died at age four, Pem and Pem are

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    Seesaw Trip to Mountain Washington The wind howled with frenzied madness through the rocky mountaintops six thousand feet upwards during a freezing Spring afternoon, it lashed without mercy at tourists, rock, and the bare vegetation left. The creamy milk hued rocks were cut into rough prisms, stacked amid each other as jenga pieces, left there purposely for no purpose. The newcomers swayed like seaweed dancing on the ocean floor to climb over the boulders under the tyranny of the gale, still, amateurs

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    the extreme weather conditions on Mount Everest. One day, Mount Everest may be fully polluted with climbers’ litter, where climbers must scale Mount Everest while stepping in garbage, instead of snow. On May 29, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Hillary was very humble and did not consider this feat his most important achievement. Sir Edmund Hillary was deeply concerned about the environment and cared for the future of Mount

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    Summary It is the worst mountain accident in the history of Everest. Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, who were professional mountaineers, each of them had established commercial climbing companies named Adventure Consultant for Hall, Mountain Madness for Fischer. They had plenty experiences of climbing 8000ers mountains, and both of them had fully confidence about coming back from Mount Everest. In 1996, the two teams guided amateur climbers who participated by paying a large amount of participation

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    is all about the intrepid and enduring journey up Mount Everest, taken on by the courageous pioneers; Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary in the year of 1953. The poem itself uses various different types of language features to hook and intrigue the readers. ‘On they plodded, Martian-weird, With pouted mask and icicle beard’ in these lines the poem talks about the equipment Hillary and Tenzing used on their expedition. The author uses a metaphor to describe how they looked like during the climb

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    Jimmy Chin is a professional climber, skier, and North Face athlete; however, he is most widely known for capturing astonishing photographs while working in extremely high-risk environments. After beginning his professional career in 1999, he soon became recognized by National Geographic and was offered to go on a trek across Tibet’s Chang Tang Plateau to photograph the endangered Tibetan antelope. Chin was later a part of the first American team to ski off the summit of Mount Everest in 2006. At

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    Pursuing Mt. Everest

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    The High Price of Pursuing Your Mount Everest What is behind the great lure of Mount Everest? It is as a symbol of ultimate achievement of climbing to succeed—rising to a elevation of few miles higher than sea level, near the Himalaya scope, on the edge of Tibet, Nepal, and Northern India. Torrents, chasms, as well as fierce winds have merged, in the company of exceptional abruptness, along with thin ether, to generate Mt Everest unfavorable to conquer. Most alpinists approach the mountain

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    Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer Essay

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    In the novel Into Thin Air, the author Jon Krakauer shows us two characters who have some similarities, yet are markedly different. Rob Hall and Scott Fischer are both world renowned mountain climbers as well as the leaders and head guides of their own mountain climbing enterprises. Each employ the respect of his peers, yet here is where the similarities end. With differences in their physical stature, climbing styles, and safety concerns, it would seem that one was destined to succeed and other

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    Garbage On Everest

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    Garbage on Everest At the highest point on Earth, Mount Everest, at 29,029 feet above sea level is polluted with over 13,000 tons of trash.The North and South peaks are polluted with broken tent parts,oxygen canisters, frozen bodies and so much more. Mt. Everest , world’s tallest mountain is also disgustingly polluted with garbage. Most of it oxygen tanks, tent parts, sleeping bags,human waste, equipment parts, and frozen bodies. About 2.5 tons of it was classified as bio-hazardous.Experienced

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