Mount Everest Research Paper

Mount Everest is the highest peak in the world. It is at a height of 29,029ft. One man named Yuichiro Miura was 80 years old when he climbed to the summit of the mountain. He is a man that started out his life during WWll. he grew up in the snowy mountains in the northern Hokkaido. They luckily survived the war and, in his father’s footsteps, he became a professional skier. He set a world record for the fastest speed while skiing at one hundred miles per hour, but held that record for only one day. When he was This is where his passion for mountaineering came into play. In nineteen sixty seven he was invited to join the New Zealand tourism board to ski down the Tasman glacier. At this board meeting where he met the first man ever to climb

This climb went as planned and was a “great sight to see” as Miura says. He also climbed it at the age to seventy five and had only small complications on both of these trips. The one that was the scariest was to climb at the age of eighty. His climb up went very smoothly, but with most Everest hikes it’s on the way down where people die. In fact eighty percent of people who have died on Mount Everest was on the descent down the mountain. By the time Miura had reached the top, he was very exhausted and says, “As i went down I had a one hundred to one hundred and twenty percent chance that I wasn’t going to make it.” These complications were due to the three surgeries he had prior to the hike to fix his shattered pelvis as well as to help with his diabetes. He was able to get to base camp five with barely any time to spare. After a little time resting at the base camp he was able to regain his strength and descend down the rest of the mountain safely. His heart problems didn’t stop there, and all of a sudden he wasn’t doing well at all. On his way to the hospital his heart stopped and the paramedics were forced to jump start his heart. He survived, but needed to get more surgery and took a white for him to regain all of the strength that he had