Mount Sinai

"The entrance to Grand Line, is a mountain," Nami explained with her hand on a map depicting Grand Line. She was the only one who put on a rain coat to prepare for the weather. We were all sitting in the kitchen, sheltering ourselves from the storm. "A mountain!?" Usopp questioned. "Exactly. I had a hard time believing it myself when I looked at the map, but look! The Light of Guidance was directly pointing at reverse mountain located right here on on Red Line," Nami gestured towards the map.

The Rock Cycle The rock cycle is a very important cycle of our lives, we can change our form from any three ways. There are three types of rocks we can change into, metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary. Changing our form isn’t the easiest thing in the world. We must change by either melting, erosion and compression, or heat and pressure. When I was born I started off as a little igneous rock. Before I was a rock, I was magma drifting up through the rift of a large volcano. When I finally reached

Pangea was a supercontinent that consisted of seven continents, it existed until the Triassic period where the continents started to drift 200-225 millions years ago. The theory was thought of by Abraham Ortelius. Evidently, three centuries later in 1912 by German scientist Alfred Lothar Wegener had a theory about how South America and Africa could fit together. Following in Wegener’s footsteps, Alexander Du Toit, a professor of geology, and his supporters theorized that Pangea first split into two

At 29,035 feet( National Geographic) , Mount Everest is the top of the world. Split in half by the Nepalese and Chinese border this is just one of the enormous mountains in the mountain range named the Himalayas. This spectacle of nature doesn’t come without it’s risks though, about 240 people have died on the mountain. The locals call Everest Sagarmatha, meaning “Forehead in the Sky”, and it was first climbed in 1953. Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, a New Zealand veteran, and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepalese

right to rescue services when they put themselves at risk?” Mountain climbing is an enjoyed sport from people as young as 13, to people as old as 70. Unfortunately, every sport comes with risks. Nearly 250 people have died while attempting to climb Mount Everest. However, more than 4000 people have successfully climbed this towering giant, standing at 29,035 feet tall. Though both sides of the argument have valid points, people should have the rights to rescue services because of a few main reasons

The Snows of Kilimanjaro was written in 1938 by Ernest Hemingway. He wrote other novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For When the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea. The Snows of Kilimanjaro deals with masculinity, animals as symbols, and death, which Hemingway like to write about. He also liked to write stories that symbolized life in some way. The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a story about Harry, a dying writer, and his wife Helen. She is trying to save him from being eaten up by

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