Mt. Everest Personification

Mount Everest is known as a wrathful goddess who is being offended by the human’s traitorous actions like slighting its magnificence and underestimating her liberality. They have shown her an unlimited level of disrespect by trading her beauty for money, fame and publicity; and by devastating her attractiveness through publicizing, forcing the goddess to show her unprepossessing side for revenge. Even after facing the horrific disaster by the mountain, everyday people are still taking something beautiful and priceless like Mount Everest and putting a price on it, taking it’s true value away. For their selfish business, humans are letting about hundreds of people every year to climb Mount Everest and turn the beautiful the summit into a garbage

This personification conveys Mount Everest as a powerful infuriated presence, who will not let anyone get pass through her, without her permission. But those who dare, will face her unpredictable aggression that is impossible to fight against. However, in the novel, Tibetans and Nepalis who resides to the north and south of Everest, worships the great mountain as their goddess, naming it “Jomolungma” or “Sagarmatha”(15) for providing them foods, shelters, and visitors who are allowed to ascend the mountain for having a greatest attraction for nature’s love and trekking. Their belief toward the mountain, points out, Mount Everest has all the characteristics that a goddess needs. If she has a remarkable beauty that can take anyone’s breath away, her unmistakable profile can also bear them down. If she has an infuriated villainous side that shows her revenge toward those who goes against her will, she also has an innocuous side that demonstrates the inexhaustible giving for those who respects her beauty and

While many climbers in the novel, from commercial expeditions were busy to offend the goddess by criticizing and trashing Mount Everest, the goddess starts to show her rage on the climbers by “defeated [ing] [them] with snow blindness and [..] murderous storm” (16) This allow the readers to visualize the power and abilities Mount Everest holds, which can create a huge destruction to harm her enemies. She is willing to take the life of the expedition members, just to remind the mountaineers that Everest is an inherently dangerous place and it is not something to mess with. Although, when the climbers still were serving the goddess with disrespect, she brought a terrifying disaster on May 10th on the summit, leaving Krakauer with a shocking expression. He comments, “Mortality had remained a conveniently hypothetical concept, an idea to ponder in the abstract. Sooner or later the divestiture of such a privileged innocence was inevitable, but when it finally happened the shock was magnified by the sheer superfluity of the carnage” (352). Krakauer’s realistic tone help readers to understand that Mount Everest is truly a vengeful goddess who does not show any mercy for her enemies. Her one blow of storm is so powerful that it wiped off most of the climbers from the summit, having the author to