und One: On the first day of our Everest simulation, our team decided to advance from base camp up to camp 1. I made this decision because my health and the health of my team members is strong. At this point I think that my team is doing well we all communicated and unanimously decided that the best thing to do was proceed to base camp 1.
Round Two: On the second day of our expedition I decided to remain at camp 1 while my team proceeded to camp 2. Although my health was still strong and I didn’t need to rest, I felt that I could used this time to take photographs of the Khumbu Ice Fall and achieve one of my personal goals. I promised my team that I would use the remaining days to catch up to them and make it to the submit with them. My team
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was supportive of my decision and told me that they were going to wait at camp 4 for me. Round Three: On day three I advanced to camp 2. My health was still strong and my hiking speed was excellent. The rest of my team had already advanced to camp 3. Today we communicated more with each other and figure out what everyone’s goals were. Two of our team member didn’t realize that they had goals that needed to be accomplished as well. Upon our discussion we discovered that three of our team members had goals that could be accomplish by staying at base camp 4 for an additional day. This was good news for me because it allowed for myself to catch up to them. It was a good that we started to talk about each others individual goals, we realized that we could not achieve all of our goals and decided that the best thing to do was for each member to accomplish as many goals as they could without sacrificing the group goal of reaching the submit. Round Four: On day four in an effort to catch up with my team, I decided to sacrifice one of my own personal goals and advanced to camp 3. I made my decision because I did not want to forgo my team’s main group goal. On my arrival to camp 3 I experienced a disastrous decrease in my health. My mental acuity dropped below normal and I had severe frostbite. I continued to have no altitude sickness. Our team had not talked today and I did not know the status of their health. However, no one had been rescued yet, so I continued with the plan of meeting my team at camp 4. Round Five: On day five in an effort to complete our group goal I continued to camp 4.
I made this decision because I examined the weather on day four and discovered that it was going to be negative 23 degrees, I then looked up the weather at camp 4 for tomorrow (2 degrees) and decided that I would be beneficial to advance to camp 4 to help reduce my frostbite. Upon examining our teams’ mountain progression I noticed that Jameson our medic had to be rescued on round four. This was a concern because he had not told us that his health was that severe. I requested 4 oxygen canisters for the rest on my trip. I made this decision because I was not carrying much weight and did not want to take canisters that my teammates may need. We started talking again and found out that a few of our team members had deteriorating health. However, since we were so close decided that the next day we would continue up to the next camp.
Round Six: On day six we all advanced to camp 5. I made this decision because I wanted to accomplish our group goal. Upon reaching the submit Sean and I discovered that the rest of our team had to be rescued. This was upsetting because I wanted our entire team to make it. After calculating our goals I had achieved 50 percent of my personal goals and achieved 30 percent of our team goals. Fortunately, everyone in our team was able to accomplish at least one
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There acclimatization process is that they will make one day round trips to the next camp 2,000 feet up to acclimatize. When they set out for their first trip Krakauer see a lot of the group putting on new boots that have not been worn and he gets worried. Also a lot of them haven't climbed in over a year.
In the memoir Within Reach: My Everest Story by Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin, the author Mark Pfetzer is faced with an extremely amazing yet scary challenge of climbing Mount Everest. Each event is the story has something to do with the nature that is around them at that moment but Pfetzer shows the readers that nature can be a way of life.
Imagine, sick soldiers, small huts, vomit, smoke everywhere near you, people crying "No Meat! No meat!" the terror of seeing everyone suffer. During December of 1777, Washington decided to set a winter camp at Valley Forge for the next few months. They set up "huts" with cold hard straw to sleep on. March 1st is the end of my enlistment, and I would leave/ not re-enlist, because of the terrible conditions, the risk of dying, and if it was truly worth it or not.
We have had to deal with, “poor food- hard lodging- cold weather- fatigue, “(Document B). In this diary by Dr Waldo, a doctor we have at camp, he has accurately described what life is like at camp. The factors that we undergo make us sick both physically and mentally, these factors make us lose all sense of empowerment to win this war that we once felt, these factors make us want to go home more than anything just to hear our mother’s voice just once more. The absence of encouragement from other colonists and countries, and how I have to go to bed with my stomach empty every single night pushes me over the edge to give up and just
If Krakauer, Hall, Hansen, and the other climbers were not loyal to each other, death would have been inevitable for everyone. While the team is climbing, one of the more experienced climbers and sherpa, Lopsang, decides to clip himself to Sandy. When asked why he did so, he responded, “because Scott wants all members to go to summit, and I am thinking Sandy will be weakest member, I am thinking she will be slow, so I will take her first.” (Page 222). Lopsang knew that the climb was beyond difficult, and he showed loyalty to Sandy by assisting her when she was weak. Another example of loyalty from the novel was shown by Hutchison. Even though the men were suffering from exhaustion, frostbite, and fear, “Hutchison organized a team of four Sherpas to locate the bodies of Weathers and Namba, who had been left on the far side of the Col when Anatoli Boukreev brought in Charlotte Fox, Sandy Pittman, and Tim Madsen.” (Page 322). This shows extreme loyalty because these men were dying, but showed respect to the dead by finding their bodies in attempt to bring closure to their families. Hutchison created a strong bond between himself and others, and he showed loyalty to people even after they died. In addition to the teammates showing loyalty to each other, the Sherpas created bonds with the climbers. Hall recognizes the immense impact the Sherpas have on the team and says, “I want you all to remember we would have absolutely no chance of getting to the summit of Everest without their help.” (Page 68). Hall showed loyalty to the Sherpas by respecting them, and only allowing them to climb to certain heights if they were not properly trained. Overall, loyalty was shown throughout the novel, and Krakauer could not have survived without the bonds he created with the other men and
My last trip to the summit was a journey filled with danger and hardships. The group of people that I was to lead up Everest included Doug Hansen, Sandy Pittman, Jon Krakauer, and Beck Weathers. Doug Hansen had attempted the summit on a guided expedition by me a year earlier, but we had to turn back. All and all the beginning of this trip was similar to many of my other commercial expeditions. We started at Kathmandu and worked our way to Phakding, where I picked up my crew of Sherpas. The Sherpas are very important to our expedition, so I told the team to appreciate their hard work. We then continued to climb until we stopped at Lobuje. This overcrowded village was disgusting and caused many of my clients to become ill....
Climbing makes for a difficult expedition, you need to give up the wrappers when you was ascending. You need to give up the heavy things, you need to give up your wrappers, and you need to give yourselves. Sometimes we need to give up our lives to climb the mount Everest. According to snow storm, the energy, the oxygen and the people who desired prove themselves the spring’s 96s expedition to mountain Everest was destined to be the most tragic.
Climbing Mt. Everest is an accomplishment that only a limited number of people can say they have accomplished. Despite statistics that illustrate most fail or die trying, numerous people are drawn to the mountain each year and truly believe they can be among that elite group. In the spring of 1996, Jon Krakauer, a journalist for the adventure magazine Outside and a passionate climber himself, was offered the opportunity to climb Mt. Everest. The original offer was to join an Adventure Consultants team led by Rob Hall, a respected and well known guide, climb to base camp and then write a story on the commercialism that had penetrated this incredibly risky but addicting sport. Without much hesitation Krakauer accepted the offer but not to just go to base camp; he wanted the top. The expedition started out as predicted but an unexpected storm the day of the summit push turned this expedition into the most devastating expedition of all time. Krakauer was changed for life; an article on the commercialism surrounding the mountain would no longer suffice. Into Th...
...to the rescue” during most of the desperate situations occurring during the crew’s time on the mountain. The supporting and assisting qualities of oxygen are displayed during times when a climber is low on oxygen, on the brink of hypoxia, but is able to secure a fresh canister of the life-saving gas. However, these qualities can be proven by Fischer’s actions without oxygen. According to the Sherpa, Fischer threatened to “jump down into Tibet,” (227) and was acting like “crazy man” (227). Fischer’s negative stance toward the descent could have been prevented with the use of supplementary oxygen, which would have played the role of supporting and assisting in the descent, and mentally reassuring him. Oxygen also proves that humans are not meant to survive at such high altitudes, and acts as a confidence booster—as long as you are breathing, you are living. (170 words)
Hall’s success rate was not only due to his attention to detail but his attention to safety and the knowledge that without the Sherpas, any attempt at guiding on Everest would be disastrous. Hall’s ability to plan and coordinate ensured that his clients had plenty of food and supplies and that they became acclimatized to the higher altitudes. Each base camp ...
We hit a down hill point so we grabbed drift wood. It would save man power and be faster to sled down. The rest helped Landon out the most because he was the smallest so he didn 't have energy left to use. But this refreshed him so we could keep going. Time was not on are side. The only thing keeping us alive was the fact that if we got out we would be the first ones ever to make it out not dead. It was about the hottest point in the day now and we had to find shade or we would get to dehydrated and die. We drank all the water we had just to fine out that we had a under ground stream below
The Everest group simulation was an exercise that required five students to immerse themselves into a team of hikers. Each role is unique and vital to the survival of the team in the attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The simulation effectively encapsulated the concepts and theories learnt in the course.
There were a great many sights to see and memories to be made as we traversed across the beautiful landscape. The trek consisted of two ten mile segments so the younger scouts could just do one part if they became exhausted, but the older scouts were encouraged to tackle the entire journey. As we camped that night, we were able to use our leadership skills in order to delegate to the younger scouts the preparations that needed to made in order to create an organized
Wiping the sweat from my brow I called a halt to the crew. Phil and I dumped our packs and found a comfy boulder to rest on. I looked back to where the last guys were coming from back down the trail. They had stopped talking a while back and marched slowly along the dirt trail. Phil produced an energy-bar he’d saved from breakfast and began to munch on it as I drained another water bottle. After the refreshing drink I laid back against the rock and stared up at the pine trees. But a moment later, hearing grumble about sore legs, I sat up, grinning, “By the map we only have another couple hours.”
Mount Everest, the world’s highest point at 29,035 feet, is a special trophy among high altitude mountaineers. Standing atop the world’s highest point a hypoxic climber clad in a fluorescent down suit is above everything else on the planet, for a moment that individual can reach farther into the sky than any other. Arms raised in a victorious salute, a climber feels like they have conquered something that few others ever have, and justifiably so. The summit is usually the final fruition of months, sometimes years of planning, weeks of travel and acclimatization, and days of endless plodding at a feeble, learning-to-walk pace.