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How Did Jon Krakauer Get Lopsang Wrong

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I think that jon Krakauer is wrong to just bring Lopsang into this writing of his and didn't ask lopsang about this because it could be just make him look horrible and no one wants that feeling.He also was just trying to survive as Jon Krakauer did say in his movie at 8000 meters its every climber for themselves and Jon Krakauer could have helped Beck Weathers down the hill so he wouldn't have needed to remove his nose instead he let Mike Groom take him down the mountain and got stuck. Jon was also the first one up and no one followed head boss Rob Hall's instructions to turn around by 2:00 the only one was Krakauer and he could have helped others turn around by then and he didn't help so it's partially his fault and lopsang helped get down while Jon was in his tent at night while people were dying. …show more content…

Jon got down the mountain alive and he wants to blame someone for accidents that happened and that is wrong of him to do.Jon blamed him for what happened on the mountain he doesn't just blame Lopsang he also blames Anatoli Boukreev and we will get to that in a minute but again lopsang had more reasoning for his defense and on did defend against what Lopsang said back to …show more content…

Boukreev was talking to scott fischer about him climbing on his own and that is a very unsmart decision and he was granted that choice and he didnt but still it wasn't very smart. Boukreev later asked to climb with no oxygen and scott said your crazy he said to be a professional I need to do it my way and so he tried but jon thought he was just a horrible guide for being a professional climber and guide for the biggest mountain on earth which makes a very good point even though he says less than boukreev jon has better

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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.

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As the team ascends to camp one they face there first route or area known as Icefall. It’s given this name due too a large glacier that moves everyday, it also forces the climbers to use dangerous roping techniques that cause them to ascend parts of Icefall independently and not roped to other climbers for support. Once at the top of camp one, Krakauer tries to help one of the sherpa move some equipment up quickly realizes that all physical labor is a heavy and difficult burden on the body. Krakauer later summits to camp two and finds that his body is even weaker the higher up he is. At camp three the winds are very high and temperatures are below zero at night.

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He was an extremely skilled climber, having summated with no supplemental oxygen before. This may have led to his downfall, as he felt with his experience he didn’t need to follow directions given by others. Fischer told Boukreev on that fateful day to hold up the rear as the group began to descend from the summit. For reasons no one knows, Boukreev went ahead of the group, abandoning his guide duties. Had there been another guide, another perspective as to which direction was the correct one, some of these lives may not have been lost.

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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".

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He is also the narrator. He has to battle his way back down the mountain side of the antagonist, Mt. Everest. The whole trip on Mt. Everest was a huge conflict, but mostly on the descent down. Jon Krakauer has to figure out a way to survive and make it back down alive. The mountain is not forgiving, and there is no easy path on the way down the mountain side.

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In Boukreev response to Krakauer and his summary of May 10, 1996 and the events that took place on that day. He asserts that Krakauer and his accusations are false about that day and that Boukreev simply left to save himself. Boukreev is writing in his piece that Krakauer was simply not in the loop of what he was doing and that his accusations were simply simple mistakes and what comes later is the correct information. With every point that Krakauer makes Boukreev has his own. For example, Boukreev writes “Also, Mr. Krakauer raised a question about my climbing without oxygen and suggested that perhaps my effectiveness was compromised by that decision.”

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Krakauer also sees some climbers who have paid as much as $65,000 to join a guided group that would lead them to the summit. Krakauer makes the point that high-altitude climbing is dangerous even for the most veteran of climbers let alone for any novice group member. The author outright states that some of the novices were not qualified to climb Mount Everest. Because of this situation, Krakauer witnessed experienced guides taking on more responsibility than usually would be necessary. As the climb on the way to the summit the author as well as many of his group mates experience the painful experience associated with climbing such as agonizing headaches, loss of strength, and loss of brain cells.

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He himself had followed Hall’s directions, and shouldn’t feel guilty about doing the right thing. Had he have stayed longer up on the summit, or lingered around for no particular reason, he would have been a hazard to others around him. There were also a million other reasons that just added up to make the entire situation worse. As Hall had said earlier on in the book, “I think it’s pretty unlikely that we’ll get through this season without something bad happening up high. (Krakauer, Pg.

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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.

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How can it be explained not only to the loved ones left behind but to a censorious public?”(Krakauer 284). Halls pride grows with each new year of climbing to the extent that he gives less attention to the safety precautions. Hall is the one to blame as he is who all the climbers held responsible for their lives, putting the upmost trust in him only to be lead to their death. Even though both are responsible for the tragedy on Everest one is held more accountable.

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During the trekking, Jagan wants to take a different way to reach the summit of mountain first. Arul and Deep warned him not to do so. Inspite of their warning, he went. During climbing the mountains, Jagan slipped down from the mountain and got struck in a bush. He badly got wounded and would not progress.

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I feel that this is a necessary step to take due to the amount of deaths on Mt. Everest that have occurred as a result of lack of climbing skills of one or more members involved in the accidents. There are many examples of this. One is mentioned in the book "Into Thin Air". A Sherpa had to short rope one of the clients, Sandy Pittman, up much of the mountain and then on the way back down a different person had to short rope her a ways. If she was a better climber, she would have been able to do much of it herself leaving Lopsang (the Sherpa) in better condition to complete what he had to do as a guiding member of the expedition.

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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.

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Jamling is doing it to follow in his father’s footsteps. And I felt a duty to make my father proud by withholding his reputation (Norgay and Coburn 7). While Mark was on Everest, he saw a lot more danger in the mountains. They told me they had been caught by the storm, and were lucky to make it out alive (Pfezter and Galvin 173). Jamling also saw the same thing, I was headed for a dangerous mountain and would need all the help I could find.

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This is because, in the end, the two guides were not careful or safe, each for their own reasons. “Likewise since he had failed to get anybody to the top in 1995, it would have been bad for Hall’s business if he failed again in 1996-- especially if Fisher succeeded(285).” This is Hall’s reason for pushing forward, the fact that it would be bad for his business if he didn’t keep on pushing forward, especially since he “was charging $65,000 a head to guide clients to the top of the world(37).” Fisher's reason was that “Fisher had never guided Everest before 1996. From a business standpoint, there was a lot of pressure on him to be successful(285).”

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