Virunga Mountains

Have you ever asked yourself if climbing Mount Everest is bad idea I ask myself that question and I think that it is a bad climbing Mount Everest for: the climber , local population , and the environment. One example of why climbing Mount Everest is because for the climber they can get hurt and that is bad because they can get hurt like they can fall. A example for the local population is because they throw a lot of garbage and that can hurt the local population and how it can also hurt the people

Read-on to see some pros and cons of climbing Mount Everest. First, let's start with the pros. The first pro is that you gain fame. You are known in the world for climbing the mountain. Another pro is that you are known for accomplishing a big accomplishment. And the last pro is that you can gain strength. If you can climb a mountain, then you can climb anything and any hard task will be easy for you. To sum up there are some pros on climbing Mount Everest. Next, a con about climbing Mount Everest is

- Jawaharlal Nehru If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be? Would it be to the high, rocky terrain mountains, scenic valleys where you could see miles and miles of green, or would you visit ancient mountains with remnants of ancient ice glaciers? If you answered yes to any of these, the Pyrenees is the destination for you. Famous for its high majestic mountains, and great green valleys, it´s a very popular tourist safehaven, for those looking for a scenic and beautiful vacation

most dangerous of the seven summits. Many people perish from not being able to acclimatize,not acclimatizing to mount Everest can cause swelling in the brain and lack of oxygen. In the movie of rest to acclimatize their bodies they had climbed the mountain three different times.

I stretched up taller pushing off with my left leg to jump to the right hand hold and complete and climb. Height was not the only advantage the other climbers had over me. To even attempt the rocky face I needed to learn about amplification. This summer I decided to travel to New Mexico along with 17 other members of my Venture Crew (a coed group under the Boy Scouts) in order to backpack in the wilderness of Philmont Scout Ranch for eleven days. There were four of us females. At high adventure

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest of the United States has ignited my passion for hiking and being in nature. For a greater portion of my life, I have lived next to Multnomah Falls and all the beautiful hikes that surround it. My absolute favorite hike in the Columbia River Gorge area is Punchbowl Falls. It is 5 miles and leads to a beautiful waterfall that people can swim in. Conquering this hike takes almost a full day as it is mostly uphill and once people finally find the waterfall, they do

Anatoli’s absence affected Fischer’s team by leaving Fischer on the mountain stranded and cold. Fischer was too weak and cold to move and the mountain was getting colder and colder by the second. He was running out of oxygen, and he removed his mask, even though he was using supplemental oxygen for the climb. At about 4:00pm everyone except hall leaves the summit. At the time Doug Hansen arrives at the top. For a little while Hall and Hansen spend a few minutes at the top then begin their descent

Banff National Park Overview After an easy hike to the top of Tunnel Mountain just outside Banff townsite, I take a deep breath of the fresh pine-scented air that rushes past on a brisk westerly. From the summit, I overlook the turquoise bends of the Bow River, and see the peaks that are synonyms water with the park rise abruptly from the valley on all sides. From my vantage point, the bustling community of Banff is revealed as but a tiny square in the vast and varied quilt of Canada's Banff National

ikes Peak is a big, tall, rocky, and beautiful mountain with a fantastic view. As my family and I started driving up the mountain the sun was shining so bright it was a nice warm summer day. The roads are so curvy going up the mountain which is creepy; if put on the outside rail. First it was a beautiful pine tree forest lookout, and saw all these different animal signs. A quarter of the way up we saw a strange sign saying Bigfoot Crossing, so we had to get a picture with it. Once we got out of the

Identified as the highest mountain on Earth, Mt. Everest is known as the Himalayan Spirit which rests on the southern border of Nepal, and the northern borders of China and Tibet. Its Nepali name is Sagarmatha, which means ‘Goddess of the sky’. The Summit stands at about 29,035 ft. above ground (8848metres high), and in which it grows by about a quarter of an inch (0.25”) each year. Its peak looks like a pyramid .It also contains a variety of rocks, different types of shale; marble and limestone