Gyachung Kang

Life seems to have endless possibilities and opportunities. Some may be beneficial, whereas others may have no benefit to one’s life. In the book Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, the characters will have the opportunity to go up the tallest mountain in the world. Although their life will be at stake, the opportunity for the climbers is just too good to pass up. When reading this book, one will question the climbers’ ways of thinking and the decisions that they make. As you get further into the book, you may also constantly wonder why climbers will risk their life for the short-term goal of climbing Mount Everest. You also may even question why the climbers even remotely consider this opportunity to be worth it. The climbers are shown to be oblivious to what could happen to them while on their expedition because the mountain has a certain pull on them. As you begin to consider how the mountain has a pull on the climbers, one may realize that a factor that comes into play is accomplishment. The feeling of accomplishing something can drive a person to go great lengths to do so. Mount Everest standing at 29,029 feet, is considered the tallest mountain in the world. With such great height, climbing the mountain is no walk in the park because of it being a task that can demolish a person physically and mentally. Now imagine being able to confidently say that you reached the top. The climbers in the book all want the opportunity to claim they did so. Such a claim will give them a…

Out of all the exciting and breathtaking places that are all around the world, there are some that stand out more than others. Some are colorful, some are tall. But the one that truly stands out more than the rest is Mount Everest. Mount Everest has some very unique characteristics about it, but those come with lots of dangers. That is why it is a dream to climb. There are lots of characteristics that Mount Everest has to offer. To start off, Mount Everest has very diverse climate and weather…

Have you ever wondered if climbing a 29,029 feet high mountain is a bad idea? Mount Everest is located between China and Nepal. Mount Everest grows 1 inch each year. Climbing Mount Everest is a bad idea because climbers health is at risk if they climb, the climbers are in a lot of danger before and after the climb, and the mountains environment is at risk. Climbing Mount Everest is a bad idea because the climbers health is at risk. The textbook Geography Alive! Regions and People is a…

The ascend up and down a hill are difficult to accomplish, but imagine climbing the tallest in the world. Russell Brice has done that multiple times, and survived. Russell Brice is probably the best known mountain guide in the world. He has reinvented the way mountain guides work at Mt Everest, been a successful mountaineer, and also a successful movie star. Russell Reginald Brice was born in 1952 in New Zealand, and since he was a child, he was always fascinated with ice and snow. Brice first…

“The end of the ridge and the end of the world… then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.” Said Stacy Allison, first American to summit Everest. Mt. Everest formed over a long period of time, but to climb, there are a lot of necessities to be able to reach the summit. There needs to be a game plan of what rout to take, and how much training there needs to be done and the right amount of food. Many men and women have…

I have done plenty of challenging things in my life, but a few of those things were harder than others. Like a thirty mile hike. Right now you probably think I’m crazy for hiking up mountains for thirty miles! But I will never forget the experience of the beauty of the Sawtooth mountains and spending time with my grandpa. Also, I will never forget the massiveness of the three ridges we had to climb up. That was definitely not my favorite part of the hike. The hike started out at a lake called…

Jordan Romero’s book is a truly inspiring piece of work in itself. It must be a true thrill to climb all of the world’s seven summits at the youngest age ever recorded. In my life, I have encountered my own “seven summits” which parallel as challenges I have faced throughout the course of my lifetime. The first and the most monumental “mountain” I had to climb was dealing with the death of my father. Personally, this was my “Everest” and through dealing with it, it has made me a much…

Have you ever said “ I’m on top of the world” when you were on top of something? Well Edmund Hillary was literally on top of the world. Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest and come back down alive. However, this wasn’t the only famous first he is known for. Along with mountaineer, Harry Ayres, he climbed the southern face of Mount Cook, becoming the first to do so. He was also part of the first all-New Zealander expedition to the Himalayas, and was the first man to reach the…

Isolated from civilization, hundreds of kilometers away from the closest city, surrounded by land and more land, is the location of Mountain Apolaia. Covered mostly, in freezing ice for most of the year, and the target of a weather capable of frightening even the bravest of men, skiers know it as the mountain with the toughest slopes on the planet. The slopes are divided in two sections, the slopes of submission and pride slopes. Although both extremely difficult, most men, with the least sense…

In chapters 7 and 8 of The Blue Sweater, this was written by Jacqueline Novogratz, the one thing that captivated me was when Novogratz climbed Mount Nyiragongo. Novogratz mentions that before she left Africa, she went for an adventure on the tallest mountain which lay between in the Goma, a city in Rwanda, and Zaire. Novogratz and her Canadian friend (Charles) and their tour guide climbed Mount Nyiragongo. The mountain was one of central Africa’ tallest mountain, it shared…