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Ana Hernandez Kuslits 6th Hour Jon Krakauer and Problem Solving 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

How would you feel quitting your job, abandoning your life, and leaving your family just to go to Alaska and climb the Devils Thumb? Or climbing Mount Everest blind? Crazily, there are two people who did that. Climbers John Krakaeur and Erik Weihenmayer, who both have a love for mountain climbing, have to overcome many difficulties to do it. Excited by their accomplishments, they wrote, expressed, and explained their feelings and experiences that they had during their journey. Confusingly, their

Kilauea Volcano The Kilauea Volcano is the youngest and most active Hawaiian shield volcano. This volcano is located on Hawaii’s Big Island. The volcano is part of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Kilauea is 300,000 to 600,000 years old. The native people from the Polynesian Islands discovered Kilauea. The other four volcanoes of Hawaii are Kohala, Mauna Loa, and Mauna Kea. “Shield volcanoes are the largest volcanoes on the earth” (“Volcano DIscovery”). This makes Kilauea a nice tourist attraction

Two men on different mountains, in different decades, sit atop snowy, windy mountains, reflecting on what got them on such a cold, towering mound of rock and snow. Jon Krakauer tells his story of climbing the Devil’s Thumb “a dozen or so years,” ago, whereas Erik Weihenmayer, a blind man, pulls you into the middle of his story of climbing Mt. Everest with a team of nineteen. Krakauer, in an attempt to escape his boring, dead-end job, ventures to climb a mountain in Alaska by himself. Jon did not

The article by, Alison Stevens, talks mainly about a “drone” that can find lost hikers on the trails. The article also gives a very accurate explanation on how the drone works. Across the world, over 48 million people get lost on hiking trails. In the beginning, scientists in Switzerland ponder about making a drone that can find lost hikers in hiking trails, going through the trails autonomously. Alessandro Giusti, leader of his team, are going to make this invention. According to Stevens, “In

There was a carbonate ion in the hydrosphere that was named Carl. He’s lived as a carbonate ion in groundwater for hundreds of years. After a few hundred years, Carl precipitated out as travertine at Havasu Falls. At this point, he’s transformed into travertine. Now, he’s heading for the lithosphere - limestone. Carl is now living in the lithosphere - limestone in Sunset Crater. He’s been limestone for millions of years. After a million years, Carl ended up in a violent eruption. During the eruption

in a can" more commonly referred to as mount Vesuvius, an active volcano, buried the ancient city of Pompeii under several meters of ash. This left the city hidden from the world for hundreds of years until it was rediscovered in 1748. Pompeii was originally settled by the Greeks, but eventually became part of the Roman Empire. Pompeii has a history of being a vacation spot for wealthy vacationers, but also home to many locals. Just across the water was mount Vesuvius, a great eye candy for the tourists

Regardless of the time period in history, society, or social class, money has constantly been an integral focal point. In the Museum of the Rockies, coins were recovered off the bodies of the victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Historians believe that in the attempt to escape the catastrophe, the victims were trying to leave with their monetary assets and other possessions including: lamps, statues of their gods, jewelry, and coins. While some fled from the city due to the massive earthquake

Andy Griffith, the comedian who warmed your hearts. This iconic actor/singer was born June first, 1926; Mount Airy,North Carolina. He was also very poor when he was younger. He was so poor, he had to live with relatives, some of his life, really only three-to-four years. Because when he turned three, his dad finally got a job, as a carpenter and that’s when he started saving up for a house for him, his wife and his son.But until then he had to sleep in dresser drawers for beds because they didn’t

Our next step was to walk half a mile up a set of worn out and weathered stairs, this was very tiring and I almost tripped a couple of times. Looking to my right and I saw large number of large mountains that were densely covered with jungle vegetation. I looked down and noticed the clouds below me. Our altitude was very high because I noticed the air getting colder. We finally reached the top of the mountain. Our guide showed us around the ruins. Walking around, I saw the unique arch architecture