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.
Charles Ray Hatcher is a serial killer from the United States. Charles was born on July 16, 1629 in Mound city Missouri. He was the youngest of four kids. His parents were Jesse and Lula Hatcher his dad was an ex-convict and abusive alcoholic. Charles was bullied in high school and inflicted his pain on his classmates.
Erika Van Hesteren lived with her family in the southern part of Amsterdam before the Nazi invade them. In 1941, German officers brought many Jews from street and homes moved to ghetto including Erika and her family. Gideon,Erika’s boyfriend,who is Germany, was working for an underground organization at that time built a wonderful hiding place in rectangular space under their eaves. He fixed up a small wooden door that opened from the bottom , and then hung different things in front of it. Nobody would never suspect an entrance there.
He was very talented and he became an expert at rock climbing. Waterman was described by his contemporaries as a strange character. Although Waterman had significant success as a climber, he was mentally challenged. After spending some time in a psychiatric facility, then Waterman climbed the Denali mountain with very little gear, it was a suicide mission, he was assumed that he fell in the deep cracks of the mountain and
Many of them are inexperienced and would undoubtedly never make it to the top without a guide. The one unifying characteristic shared by all of the climbers is that they have money—enough to shell out $65,000 a piece for their shot at the top. Krakauer spends long chapters giving his best, most educated guesses about why climbers made certain decisions, and what happened to the people who disappeared. This is an exercise that must result in major frustration, as no one can be entirely sure what took place. Many mistakes later, Krakauer manages to piece together an outline of what happened to whom and when during the climb, but the questions he struggles with in almost every situation are "why" and "how".
Westerbork camp was established in October 1939. Westerbork transit camp was a World War II Nazi refugees. The camp continued to function after the Germans invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940.In 1941 Westerbork had a population of one thousand Jewish refugees mostly from Germany. Westerbork served as a transit camp from 1942 to 1944, the Jews where sent their before they where deported to exterminate camps. Westerbork was enlarged.
At the age of 26 Eric Hosmer has been to two World series and has claimed 8 awards such as Golden glove, Rookie of the month, and Kansas city player of the year. This solidifies Eric as one of the best first basemen in the MLB. Eric John Hosmer is a MLB first basemen who was born on October 24, 1989 in South Miami ,FL. Eric’s father Mike was a retired Firefighter and his mother Ileana was a nurse.
By: Isaiah Thomas What Mike Coffman gave up for his country “10/28/15- Mike Coffman supports lung cancer”. Hold on wait a minute I should probably tell you who Mike Coffman is and how he got to where he is now. Mike Coffman is in Colorado’s 6th District just because he joined the Army, the Army Reserve, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the Marine Corps Reserve, or is there more like the life that he gave up to get where he his now, but what exactly did he give up, and why? First, let’s start off with what did Mike Coffman give up to be able to be in Colorado’s 6th district? At the age seventeen, after finishing his junior year at Aurora Central High School in 1972, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, and he gave up his senior year of high school to
These skills even earned the respect of the Danish King Harald Gormsson as Gunnar contended with his men in various sports, and there was not one sport in which they were a match for him.
Sophie Hosbein Hosbein 1 Digital Production 1 Ms. Hoffman September 22, 2015 D.W Griffith and Billy Blitzer Essay D.W Griffith and Billy Blitzer were an incredible pair and made many lasting contributions to the world of cinema. Before meeting each other, Griffith had been an actor and playwright and Blitzer was trained as a silversmith, but worked as an electrician in New York City.
Edmund Emil Kemper III also known as Ed Kemper was born in California in 1948. He is an American serial killer who is known for murdering 10 people including his mother and grandparents. Kemper murdered people between 1964 and 1973 which included both family and innocent young women. Kemper is known for his imposing size, standing over 6 feet tall. Ed had a very high IQ.
Ed Kemper was a serial rapist who terrorized California from 1972-1973 with 8 murders spread out among the Santa Cruz region. He primarily picked up young female hitch-hikers and either shot or strangled them. He would cut off the head and hands, rape the corpses, and dispose of the body separately. He had a very troubled childhood with a lot of psychological abuse from an alcoholic mother which attributed to most of his psychosis. He ended up turning himself in after the murder of his mother and given life in prison.
For as long as anyone can remember, people have dreamed of reaching the summit of Mt. Everest. During May of 1996, an expedition set out to Nepal to attempt a climb up Mt. Everest. By the end of this expedition to the top of Everest, many climbers lost their lives due to the brutal weather. In Jon Krakauer’s novel Into Thin Air, he takes readers through the story of the expedition, and he talks about the climbers who died. Among the list of the dead was a man named Doug Hansen.
William Shakespeare’s Henry V is an extraordinary , determined, and a skilled figure. Henry V has the ability to communicate with people in such a way that it gives them motivation and hope. He demonstrates this by speaking to his troops in a manner that makes them all feel valued, no matter their social class. Henry’s greatest known speech is the “band of brothers” speech. This speech captivated everyone’s attention, not only because Henry did a great job in getting his feelings across, but because Henry spoke to all his men with respect regardless of who they were, or where they came from.
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.
