ipl-logo

Pikes Peak Trail Achievements

691 Words3 Pages

Pikes Peak Everyone has achievements in their life, no matter how small or big, they always happen. One achievement I can recall on is when I hiked the Pikes Peak trail in Colorado. This wasn’t a contest or a competition but it was a personal achievement that I value highly. This may sound like something not worth doing but it is the highest peak in Colorado that you could hike and many people cannot do it. This didn’t happen in a day either, I had to train for it, but eventually I was able to do it. When I did I couldn’t explain the feeling, well it was mostly exhaustion, but other than that it felt amazing. It all started a couple of years ago when my father moved to Colorado so he could work at Fort Peterson Air Force Base. When he moved their I was able to visit him on the summers and long breaks. Whenever I went up there we would always go hiking and camping …show more content…

While we were hiking we saw many things, birds, trees, animals, but I knew that the best sight to see was at the top. The trail slowly but increasingly became more and more difficult. The slope would increase and the sun was getting hotter. Once we passed the tree line we could finally see the top. Once we saw it our pace picked up with our goal becoming closer and closer to us. Once we reached the top I felt a huge weight lift off my shoulders as I looked around and could see every mountain as far as the horizon would go. There was a little shop at the top where you could buy refreshments so we bought two Dasani waters and sat down. I took the view in slowly, because I knew I had earned it. Slowly the sun began to go lower and we knew that it wouldn’t be safe to be atop the mountain at sunrise because of lightning, so we began to hike back down the mountain. On the way down our heads were held a little higher and our pace a little slower because we felt good about our accomplishment and what it meant to

Show More
Related
1031 Words | 5 Pages

I can’t believe we’re on the top,’” is an example of the excitement showed after completing the climb. By saying this, the reader can feel the joy and excitement of the

Read More
706 Words | 3 Pages

Despite the challenges I encountered, I was able to overcome them and reach the summit. I am proud that I was able to venture out of my comfort zone and see what the world has to offer. I also realized that the world is beautiful. There are so many fascinating natural features of our world that are labeled as “dangerous,” such as mountains and the danger falling, rockslides, and avalanches if there is snow; and the depths of the ocean. We have only discovered five percent of the ocean so far, and I guarantee that we will find incredible and creatures and plants.

Read More
1257 Words | 6 Pages

For people who don’t know anything about Everest or climbing in general, Krakauer dives into the history and technicality of climbing Everest. Only after describing every incident leading up to the summit, Krakauer begins detailing the events and mistakes during the storm that ended up killing thirteen people. The storm leaves Krakauer and many other survivors shaken, the only thing left is to see how the deaths on Everest end up affecting friends and family. There is no real ending to this book, it was only meant to purge Krakauer of the guilt and shame Everest left him with. The only resolution is for Krakauer getting as accurate of an account of the event as he could

Read More
485 Words | 2 Pages

He went there with his friends and family, during the climb a rain storm struck them, but nothing could stop him from summiting the mountain. After facing so much trouble on the mountain, Philip Simmons did not let his disease and the storm defeat him. As the author says, “It was as though I had been privileged with a glimpse of my own death, and found it the most terrible and beautiful thing I had ever seen “(Simmons 1243). When he was young, the author was afraid of going down the stairs without his mother, and Simmons made a brave decision when he had to do it on his own. From his childhood, the author is very brave, and this reminds me of my

Read More
241 Words | 1 Pages

There are people in life who crave thrill and adventure; who feel their life is missing something. Some people choose to climb Everest to fulfill this. Desperate to summit, to experience a view beyond words, people risk their lives to get a sneak peek at the top of the world. Although Everest is the world’s highest mountain, it is also the world’s highest open grave. In Jon Krakauer 's Into Thin Air, eight climbers lose their lives; the most dead in one year.

Read More
847 Words | 4 Pages

“Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed” (Krakauer 16). In the novel Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, Mt. Everest itself is a symbol for the journey to achievement. It symbolizes a man's passion and determination to achieve great things. The symbol works to provide evidence for Jon Krakauer's theme of human nature to pursue success and that if there is a challenge, men will take it. People naturally want to explore the unexplored and achieve great things, so when Everest was calculated to be the tallest mountain in the world in 1852 by India’s surveyor general, Sir Andrew Waugh, almost immediately, people wanted to climb it, “After

Read More
2208 Words | 9 Pages

When completing a long climb, one first experiences dizziness, disorientation and shortness of breath due to the high altitude, but once you become accustomed to the climb, your mind opens up to the tranquility of the triumph" (Bozeman, par 4 and 8). Bozeman describes the 3 challenges that the graduating class had to overcome in order to reach the hilltop, using vivid language to create a visual image of the physical struggle involved in the climb, highlighting the idea that great struggle is required to achieve enlightenment. he concludes by highlighting the rewards of the climb, suggesting that once the graduates become accustomed to the climb, their minds will open up to the tranquility of the triumph. He appeals to the audience's logical thinking to encourage and inspire the graduating class to persevere in the face of challenges and to strive for greatness. Both speakers use logos effectively to make their arguments appeal to the audience's rationality.

Read More
292 Words | 2 Pages

My proudest achievement would be getting into Cumberland International Early College and making it oy my senior year. The three years I have spent at Cumberland International have been very difficult because of many reasons such as being on the campus of Fayetteville State University, taking almost two years of high school in only two semesters, and being pushed to excel from the beginning in order to prepare to take full level college courses by our tenth grade year. Although I struggled during my time at CIECHS it was a truly amazing opportunity to be accepted as the third graduating class of its time. Being at a school that had only been running for two full years has both positive and negative aspects. We were changing the curriculum

Read More
129 Words | 1 Pages

One of my accomplishments that I am proud of is the Wanted Poster I made of Grendel, from the story Beowulf, for my senior English class. It was real fun to work on because I made him look like myself, but with a six pack. Every time I showed it to some it put a big smile on their face. This was a group assignment, but I couldn’t find a partner so I just worked on it myself.

Read More
137 Words | 1 Pages

Indeed, I felt a sense of triumph reaching the place where I never thought I could with fatigue and stress of knowing that I have to get back over the same rough trail. My legs were severely sore and my lungs were congested but today when I look back on it as an epic expedition, a wide grin appears on my face and I believe it will continue to do so over the rest of my life.

Read More
1001 Words | 5 Pages

As I walked into the vicinity of the woods, I looked behind me and into the distance before I entered. I stared at the stormy, low lying, smoky clouds that blanketed the sun and prevented its light from creeping through. The baby blue sky and the ray of light that poked out from the edges of the clouds lit up the day. The openness of the surroundings that laid outside the woods became absorbed into my mind and I began to think. I realized that there is so much more out there in the world and the universe.

Read More
560 Words | 3 Pages

The trail did not seem like it was ever going to end it stretched out for mile and miles and then miles after that but she kept walking. Finally i saw house on the horizon so i knew i was almost there. I finally trudged the whole trail and i ran into a big house at the trails end. The house seemed to be

Read More
632 Words | 3 Pages

An accomplishment that saw me transition from childhood to adulthood was when I got my Eagle Scout award. Since the award occurred so close my eighteenth birthday and I had been working on it for so long. This accomplishment allowed me to look back on my childhood and reflect on everything that I had had to do to earn this award but more importantly reflect on what I had learned in my travel through scouting. This was not only a growing up process for me but for my community and family. Becoming an adult in society today is when you are able to use skills learned in childhood and combine these skills to complete one complex project or task.

Read More
270 Words | 2 Pages

Leaving Ecuador at the age 14 and coming to New York was the hardest decision I had to make. It wasn’t easy to come to a place where everything is new. The biggest challenge was learning the language. English used to give me a hard time in the school. In high school, I needed to carry a dictionary with me all the time; I took remedial classes and spent hours doing regular homework.

Read More
578 Words | 3 Pages

In that momeht, everything in my life fell away and all that was left was pure serenity. I looked down into the vast opening of the canyon and see the how deep it really is. I look further out and see other canyons branching out in other directions to unknown areas of the canyon. The walls themsleves look weathered by time, but yet they stand sturdy and sererin defing gravity. I can hear my friends approaching and that breaks my focus, but I do my best to stay in the moment.

Read More

More about Pikes Peak Trail Achievements

Related Topics

Open Document