What if you could’ve saved your son from dying? Or a stranger, you just met minutes before he walked into his death tramping in the New Zealand bush… What if simply checking the weather could’ve saved your own life? This is the reality of tramping and how easily it can go from just walking, and then walking into your death.
Mum
It wouldn’t have taken much for the mother to make a great impact on the outcome of her son and his friends hike. If she hadn’t of made a few assumptions that she did, I believe it would have easily saved a life. The mother in this story made the mistake of assuming that the boys would face no perceived real risks such as weather change and hypothermia. She could have done many things to save the life that was lost. As simple as asking questions like, ‘how long are you going for?’ This could lead to the conversation of, ‘don’t you think the weather might not be in your favor for that long?’ ‘Make sure you check the weather if you’re going that long!’ I think the mother should’ve been the stereotypical over protective and asked many questions, made sure they were safe, taking the appropriate gear rather than assuming that they’ve got it.
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Considering only one had experienced too. My reason being that is if one gets injured, then the other has to split from them to get
...e ultimately saved that flight. Before getting back into the plane, he could have taken a moment to walk around and look at how the snow was affecting the wings. He would have seen that snow was collecting on the surface and could have made a decision to have the plane de-iced and had a coat of anti-ice on. They could have been more patient with the plow truck. Gave the plow truck more time to clear the runway then get off. Then he would have never had to turn off the engine bleeds to obtain a shorter take off distance. The pilot could have made a decision to hold off on the departure till the weather got better. With the ceiling at 900 feet and visibility at 1 ¼ doesn’t offer much room for error. I feel as if the pilots had made a decision to change at least one of these things, the plane would have never crashed. It is a good learning experience for other pilots.
Cross country runners spend weeks to months training for that one moment, the moment they will lean across the finish line. Crossing the finish line only lasts for only a split second, but the impact is significant. People often ask why, why spend so much time training for that one moment? Well for me it’s simple. The feeling I have when I cross that finish line is like no other I’ve ever had; it is a unique combination of pride, pain, relief, and an indescribable sense of accomplishment. After reading Into Thin Air, I realized how similar climbing a mountain actually is to running a race. Climbers, just like runners, spend months training for those few glorious minutes on top.
Climbing Mount Everest is a horrific and thrilling experience that 290 people have died attempting to complete. In the novel “Into Thin Air” written by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer goes through his own journey of climbing Mount Everest and how commercialized the climbing of Everest had really become. In his journey he explains how climbers have paid as much as $65,000 to join a guided group that would lead them to the summit. The author bluntly states that some of the novices were not qualified to climb Mount Everest. With this amateurity it only made the journey twice as much difficult and dangerous. Unfortunately, a terrible blizzard struck Mount Everest within minutes of them reaching the top. For all of the climbers on the mountain, the blizzard turned what was to be a successful climb for all concerned into a nightmare. Because of poor planning, several of the climbers found themselves in a desperate situation that they had no
Helen Keller once said “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all”. Chris McCandless believed in this thought. However, Chris’s “daring adventure” also cuased his quick demise. People risk their lives for many reasons. Perhaps a person is suicidal or maybe they are foolish and ill prepared. I believe many people, including Chris McCandless, risk their lives for an adventure because life is short, and why not take risks while a person still can. Or on the contrary, a person could be seeking a thrill, or attempting to test their worth, or simply trying to decide who they really are.
At 6pm on a Saturday evening, Sally and her parents were on their way to go skiing for their 20th time. The whole family was extremely excited and looking forward to this, especially since the place was somewhere they’d never been to before. As they were in the car, Sally was daydreaming about what the place would look like, and wondered if her worst fear would be there: ski lifts. Everything about this scared her. The car is out in the open, has no roof, and the ride could malfunction at any time. Since this unanswered question was on her mind now, she decided to ask her parents to see if they knew. “I’m just wondering, do either of you know if there are going to be ski lifts at the place?” Both of her parents paused in confusion but didn’t
This topic is relevant to today’s society because it is important to save lives, and doing the opposite would just be inhumane. For example, there’s a single mom on a little adventure on Everest, alone, and she fell. Should rescue services help her to reunite with her little kids? Or should they “accidentally” put the poor kids in an orphanage? With the example given above, it is crystal clear that the option to save the mom is the best choice. And that’s why people do have the right to rescue services when they put themselves at risk. There are a lot of mountain climbing accidents happening every day, think about it, imagine how grieving life would be for the unfortunate climbers’ families if rescue services can’t help
of her two children, who were still strapped in the back seat, but it was to no
Death knocked on the door constantly for these two survivors, but the dad saved the day every time even up to his last breaths. They came across lucky break, after lucky break, but if it had not been for the father’s resourcefulness they would not have taken advantage of them. Occasionally the breaks were hard to get and find, but the dad came through. On the beach, they saw a boat out in the ocean, and rather than waste the supplies on board the dad made countless journeys back and forth to the boat. In the process, he obtained large quantities of life saving supplies, which kept them going. Without the dad’s resourcefulness, they would not have even made it out of the fire that destroyed the earth.
Everyday thousands of individuals put their lives at risk for no more than a sense of thrill. These daredevils decisions usually result in situations that require rescues that cost society large amounts of tax dollars. People who put themselves in a life-or-death situation should be held accountable for their rescue and should also be responsible for their actions. Being in a life-or-death situation does not excuse anyone from choosing a wrong path while knowing it isn’t the correct decision.
Gary Soto is an American poet who grew up in a Mexican American household and community. Soto wrote his poems mainly about his daily life and experiences. How Things Work is told in the first person. Soto uses Personal pronouns such as, I, we, you, us, and your to show this. The Audience of the poem was Soto’s daughter. Soto is telling his daughter how things work in life in the poem, and that is where he gets the title, How Things Work.
In a newspaper article, by The Seattle Times, titled Ranger Killed During Rescue of Climbers on Mount Rainer, Nick Hall, a climbing ranger, “…fell 3,700 feet to his death…after helping rescue two climbers who had fallen into a crevasse, according to a park news release.” Even if rescue services do come to help, they could lose their lives due to other people’s poor choices. People need to learn the consequences of them climbing, inexperienced. People do get rescued, but besides the rescuer who lost their life, is affected, their friends and family are affected, too. It is not right for someone to die just because of another person.
A few winters ago, some friends invited my family and me to go snow skiing at Paoli Peaks, Indiana. I did not know how to snow ski, and I leaped at the thought of trying this new sport. On the first morning we entered the pro shop to rent all the gear and make decisions about whether or not to take lessons or go it alone. We decided to be adventurous and go it alone—no lessons. Kent and Celeste, the friends who invited us, knew how to ski and snowboard. He assured us that he could show us the basics, and we would be on our way down the slopes. All of us, after a few minutes learning how to wedge our skis started down the family trail. Although the family trail had smaller hills and appeared safe, to me it seemed way
little girls mother is afraid of, this is why she will not let her go to the
As the plot unfolds, I feel the story's protagonist falls victim to several factors brought into play at once: his inexperience with the severity of the Klondike winters, his inability to envision the possible consequences of his decision to travel alone in such weather, a series of unfortunate events during his trip, and the misjudgment exercised in his attempts to survive those incidents. Though quick and alert, the man's lack of imagination renders him unable to visualize what might happen to a man traveling without a companion should adverse circumstances arise in such severe weather in an uninhabited landscape. When he indeed finds himself in dire straits as a result of getting wet in the brutal freezing weather, he once again fails to imagine how quickly the cold will threaten his life and consequently misjudges the severity of his situation. His poor judgment causes him to make one mistake after another until he finds himself incapable of extricating himself from his situation. It seems obvious that had he made himself more familiar with the culture of the land and paid attention to the warnings of the old-timer on Sulpher Creek, he might have chosen to delay his trip and live to travel another day.
I almost fell off a cliff on the side of a mountain. I was in Pitkin, Colorado, on a camping trip during the summer of 2009. The trees were green, the air was fresh so were the lakes, rivers, and ponds were stocked with fish and wildlife was everywhere. Usually, on these camping trips, I would be accompanied by a large number of people. However, this time, it was just my parents, my three brothers, and my two sisters. I was almost 12 years old at the time and having three older brothers made me very competitive. Naturally, when my family decided to climb one of the mountain’s which were around us, I wanted to be the first one to reach its peak.