Mount Everest is a huge 8,848 meter mountain in Nepal. In 1953, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary became the first people to officially reach the top of the mountain by using the southeast ridge route. "Both Tenzing and I thought that once we'd climb the mountain, it was unlikely anyone would ever make another attempt," Sir Edmund says in an interview with National Geographic. "We couldn't have been more wrong". Over the following decades, Mount Everest has been seen as an opportunity for commercialization. You can now pay thousands of dollars for an experienced climber to guide you up the mountain, along with Sherpas to help you carry your things. This has become such a norm that people have lost sight of the real reason they climb the mountain. …show more content…
Now, in the modern age, Mount Everest is seen as a profit. For example, on April of 2014, there was an accident on Mount Everest. At around 6:30 A.M. a chunk of ice broke off a glacier and as it fell it created an avalanche on the mountain's south side (Barry). It trampled about 30 men while 13 bodies were found and three were still missing (Barry). No foreigners died during this avalanche since most of them were still sleeping. Sherpas or Nepalese were the ones who died during this incident. In an article published in the New York Times, Nida Najar and Bhadra Sharma, say, "delegation of government officials from Nepal's Ministry Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation will visit the Mount Everest base camp on Thursday in an attempt to salvage the expedition season even as Sherpa mountain guides, support staff and foreign tour operators, shaken by an avalanche that killed over a dozen Nepalese guides last Friday, begin to pack up their gear and head home". This is a perfect example that proves that Mount Everest expeditions are only being done for the money. I find it pathetic that the Nepalese government is trying to "save the expedition" while over a dozen of it's own people died while many others were injured. Sherpa's make about $125 per climb, while carrying 20 pounds, although they sometimes double the load to get a bigger pay (Barry). I believe they get underpaid for the amount of work they do. Mountain climbers who are clients and have to pay for their trip, end up paying at the very least around $65,000. This is why I find it very unfair that these Sherpa guides who do so much for clients only get paid $125 per climb. "Among their most dangerous tasks is fixing ropes, carrying supplies and establishing camps for clients waiting below, exposing themselves to the mountains first", says Ellen Barry and Graham Bowley in the article Deadliest Day: Sherpas Bear Everest's
Jon Krakauer is looking to fulfill a childhood ambition by finally climbing Mount Everest. After being assigned to write a brief piece about the mountain for Outside magazine, Krakauer manages to convince his bosses to fund a full-fledged expedition to the top. Bold. Krakauer is climbing with Adventure Consultants, a commercial group led by experienced climber Rob Hall. The journalist befriends several members of his group, such as Andy Harris, a guide, and Doug Hansen, a fellow client and postal worker back home.
Doug worked two different jobs to afford to go on the trip to Everest, and was making his second attempt to reach the summit of Everest. Doug came back to Everest to try and reach the summit for the first time. Because Doug failed to reach the summit on his first attempt, I argue that Doug Hansen’s primary motivation
After much debate, America finally offered $15 million for the land and France gladly accepted. April 30, 1803 the treaty was written making Louisiana officially American land. Some people however, were upset with the buy. They had believed that the new land would take all the attention and the older eastern land would get forgotten.
Being so high up can cause there to not be enough oxygen for your body and can kill your brain cells. Preparation for climbing takes several months. You can not just immediately climb Everest, you have to progress by climbing smaller mountains and then working your way up. When a person thinks they are ready to climb Mt. Everest I think that the guides at base camp should decide whether or not they are ready to attempt such a big mountain using some kind of physical test. Personally, I would never want to attempt to climb Everest.
Krakauer explains how following the discovery of Everest as the highest mountain in the world, the journey to the top would take the lives of 24 men, the efforts of 15 expeditions and the passage of 101 years before someone would finally reach the summit. This demonstrates how all though the expedition to the top was not easy, and would require the lives of many men, people would not stop trying because that is human nature. Not all people climb Mt. Everest in their lifetime, but most people, if not all, work hard to achieve something or be successful. Whether that success may be in their professional life, their personal life, or anything else, Mt. Everest can symbolize all of it. It symbolizes a journey to success and relates to the theme of humans natural drive and passion to pursue what they want.
Many things could go wrong climbing the highest mountain in the world with an elevation of 29,029 ft. 12 people died climbing Mount Everest. No is responsible for those death. The climbers had chosen to climb the mountain. In the novel it states, “Hall was charging $65,000 a head to guide clients to the top of the world” (Krakauer 35). This shows that a person is willing to pay to go through so much pain, risk and sickness to summit the top of the world.
Those who climb everest for the sense of achievement would be more than willing to climb up then quickly come down. Those who find climbing everest to be more of an obligation, wouldn’t want to spend much time climbing, or want
The author remembers, “None of them imagined that a horrible ordeal was drawing nigh. Nobody suspected that by the end of that long day, every minute would matter” (Krakauer 9). The events which occurred on top of Mount Everest that fateful night in 1996 shocked the world. However, the world failed to acknowledge the pain these events left the actual members of the various expeditions in. These unfortunate souls, like Jon Krakauer, were left to wonder what they did wrong to cause the deaths of eight innocent people.
But the mountain still attracts many climbers or mountaineers to this day. The people who love climbing mountains are called mountaineers. They can be professional or amateurs but as long as they love climbing mountains, they will make Everest their goal. Most people hire professional guides to climb Mt. Everest. It is a very expensive mountain climbing trip.
Robert Hall is the one most responsible for deaths of those that died in the Mount Everest Disaster. One of the reasons that is, is that he was paid to keep them safe. “We guarantee the maximise the safety and success of your adventure (37).” Although he does say we agree to maximise safety, maximise being the keyword, he does
To the leaders of Nepal, Due to the recent events that have occurred on Mt. Everest, I propose that you make the restrictions on getting to Everest more than just monetary. In addition to the fees you should include certain requirements to receive a permit. These restrictions should have to do with the climbing ability or record of the individual attempting to climb any one of your unique mountains. This way it will not only make Everest safer, but also the other mountains of the Himalayas safer.
The Himalayan Trust is a major project around the world and was led by Edmund until his death in 2008. The charity and its new president continue to support and rebuild with the Nepalese people. They also restore the basic human rights to the people of the Everest
In the first chapter of The World:Travels 1950-2000, James Morris ,a journalist from The Times, and his crew are waiting for two climbers from England to descend from the summit of Mount Everest. James is trying to get his first big scoop on the first expedition to the top of Mount Everest. When the Climbers make it back down they all celebrate until the evening when James decides to depart back home with his crew to send his article back to The Times about the expedition.
Everest Review | The mountain wins but movie fails to scale the summit Watching this movie leaves the viewer in no doubt that the hero of this movie is Mt. Everest. Everest is by no means what would be called an entertainment film. The mountain is brutal in real life and similarly is reflected in this movie. The opening few texts take care of business and get us right into how mountain-climbing, an activity for highly trained explorers transformed into an Adventure tourism.
Final 3 Paragraph Essay Are those life bonuses for climbing mountains by the Mount Everest to spare for? Why? I believe that life bonuses for climbing mountains by the Mount Everest to spare for is mountaineering, but not the most challenging and self-fulfilling dream sports. I believe that life bonuses for climbing mountains is to do mountaineering because the exercise of the risks being physical and mental health. In my opinion, the risks applied for people to go on avalanche mountains is the higher risk, and the preservation of death to Mount Everest.