Mount Hood Case Study

In the editorial, Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer discusses the topic of the disaster that occurred that day at Mount Everest. He states many of the events that happened in detail and how it changed his life completely. Throughout that day, Jon Krakauer joined a team in which their goal was to reach the summit of Mount Everest with several different guides. They were leaded by guides to help along the way to help reach the summit successfully. As the day went on , many of the team members were left behind in which it gave a bad sign.

“For the most part I attributed my growing unease to the fact that I’d never climbed as a member of such a large group- a group of complete strangers, no less. “ (37)

The short text from Into Thin Air in chapter 8 by Jon Krakauer gives an overview of the shocks he has faced in 1996 climbing the Mt. Everest. At 21,000 feet, Jon Krakauer faces the dead body for the first time. This horrible experience left him shocked and mentally damaged for hours. At 21,300 feet, Jon Krakauer faces another dead body. However, this time, it wasn’t a big shock anymore, he had got used to it. At this point, Jon Krakauer realizes that all other climbers also takes this experience accustomed as if these bodies weren’t real. This text is about the author’s first experience of facing the fearful reality of the nature occurring upon humans and realizing how other climbers treat this so naturally. The author uses literary devices of simile and visual imagery to create fears.

The pain for everyone grew increasingly greater each day that they were on the mountain. Everyone on the expedition had to dig deep into themselves to find the will to keep moving and to put their pain and fears aside. The pain that each of these men and women on this mountain were beginning to feel was pain that would linger well after they got off the mountain.

In order to continue climbing Everest, many aspects of climbing need to be improved before more people endanger their lives to try and reach the roof of the world. The guides have some areas that need the most reform. During the ascension of Everest the guides made a plethora mistakes that seemed insignificant but only aided in disaster. The guides first mistake is allowing “any bloody idiot [with enough determination] up” Everest (Krakauer 153). By allowing “any bloody idiot” with no climbing experience to try and climb the most challenging mountain in the world, the guides are almost inviting trouble. Having inexperienced climbers decreases the trust a climbing team has in one another, causing an individual approach to climbing the mountain and more reliance on the guides. While this approach appears fine, this fault is seen in addition to another in Scott Fischer’s expedition Mountain Madness. Due to the carefree manner in which the expedition was run, “clients [moved] up and down the mountain independently during the acclimation period, [Fischer] had to make a number of hurried, unplanned excursions between Base Camp and the upper camps when several clients experienced problems and needed to be escorted down,” (154). Two problems present in the Mountain Madness expedition were seen before the summit push: the allowance of inexperienced climbers and an unplanned climbing regime. A third problem that aided disaster was the difference in opinion in regards to the responsibilities of a guide on Everest. One guide “went down alone many hours ahead of the clients” and went “without supplemental oxygen” (318). These three major issues: allowing anyone up the mountain, not having a plan to climb Everest and differences in opinion. All contributed to the disaster on Everest in

When people often take on the challenge of climbing Mt. Everest, they are aware of the risks that comes with it. One of the biggest controversal disasters that occured on Everest is the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster. A group of many, includng the author of Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer, were all caught in a storm when almost nearing the summit whivh concluded to 8 deaths and a story others could never tell. In the sstory, it shows a large point of veiw of what happened through the trip, and a majority of people had to find who to to blane for what had happwned. Aftter readind and understanding, i choose to believe that Jon Krakauer and the Nepal government are responsible for the deaths that occured during the disaster on 1996 Besides the weather, the suffering still did occur, which showed the true colors of the poeple. Krakauer and Nepal pressured a choice of good and evil during this trip with caused the deaths to make the others partially at fault.

Even though the climbers understood that climbing is no easy task to accomplish, they witnessed miracles that only humans can perform such as that of Beck Weathers still being alive after becoming blind in his right eye with no one to watch after him as he started walking in the wrong direction (316). While preparing for and being on this mountain climb, the mountain trekkers experienced emotions only humans facing struggles can feel with such intensity. The author experienced determination when he wished to quench is mountain-climbing thirst even with his few credentials and he felt belief as he wore a Xi-stone and hoped his partner Doug would reach the summit with him (113, 159). The author, who probably never felt these human emotions on a regular basis with such fervor, only experienced them when he was faced with the struggle of climbing Everest. As the author climbed Everest, he realized several things that he would not have had he not climbed Everest. When forced to be the ice chopper in place of a Sherpa, Krakauer understood that even as he goes under gruesome conditions as a climber, and life in general, some people have to do even more labor than he

Instead of risking their lives for their own glory, they do it to help others reach the summit and for the benefits that follow. Besides a natural love for climbing mountains, finances push them to attempt these expeditions over and over. There are reasons guides like Andy Hall feel high pressure to succeed and as Krakauer explains,, “he was savvy enough to understand that the more attention he got from the news media, the easier it would be to coax corporations to open their checkbooks” (32). Hall uses his media attention to fund trips to Mt. Everest and would do whatever it took to help an important climber reach the top and which is essentially where he finds his sense of accomplishment and media attention. Guides like Scott Fischer have to make a name for themselves first, and initially might do so unsafely. Don Peterson speaks of Fischer with awe, proclaiming, “It didn’t matter how much pain he was in- he would ignore it and keep going,” referring to Scott Fischers six months of traveling with “an open suppurating wound” (63). It is possible that with such desperation to succeed and be well known as a climber, guides would risk their lives by ignoring injuries and health. Its evident that even the most skilled still face challenges but continue to pursue a dangerous lifestyle for

On May 10, 1996 six people died trying to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. These people were parts of two expeditions that were in the Himalayas, preparing to ascend the summit for six weeks. The first group was under the direction of Rob Hall, who had put 39 paying clients on the summit in five years. Hall was considered the leader of the mountain and the man to see no matter what the discrepancy. Group two, headed by Fisher, who like Hall, was trying to start a profitable business in providing the experience of climbing Mt. Everest to all for the price of 60 to 70 thousand dollars. Unfortunatly, neither man would live to tell the tale of this expedition.

Leadership failure is rarely discussed, and yet often represents the greatest potential risk to an organization or group in an unfamiliar situation. For the Everest Simulation, I held the role of team leader, in which I was required to achieve goals relating to a combined ascent and maintaining team safety. At completion, 13 of 20 individual goals, and 65% of overall team goals were accomplished. The lower rate of success was due to several ethical and leadership related failures, resulting in a team member being evacuated on the final ascent. Although the simulation could have been more successful, the team dynamics witnessed were enlightening as to what constitutes effective leadership and ethical decision making in a high-intensity situation.

Through the excursion of Dyer’s team, they overcame many struggles, one of them being during their last lap, where “through the desolate summits swept raging intermittent gusts of the terrible Antarctic wind; whose cadences sometimes held vague suggestions of a wild and half sentient musical piping”. (Lovecraft, 280) With that said, predominantly scientists and researchers, are often compelled to form research through travelling through different places across the world, causing them to be thoughtless of taking into consideration the many obstacles they need to overcome. Unfortunately, this lack of comprehension of the harsh conditions, causes many scientists to either pass away or be critically ill, as they were not emotionally or physically prepared for the struggles. When looking in a factual life scope, many individuals who travel to Mount Everest are preparing themselves for this adventure as they are curious to find what the world has to offer them, when they are standing so close to the

Jordan Romero, a world record holder, became the youngest person to summit Mount Everest on May 22, 2017. The majority of people in the intelligent community say that Jordan’s attempt should not have been done. They say he is not physically or emotionally capable of climbing the mountain. Although, nevertheless, there are always the few that refuse to believe the truth. They claim that he is strong enough to make the climb it because he’s been training a long time. Most critics argue that these are alternative facts. In the latest article of Frost Bites, Hue Smooka Weedman, a very Mendacious character claims, “If Jordan Romero believes that he can do it, he can. Recents studies by Scientific American shows that if somebody believes with all

The case of Mt. Everest focuses on two commercial expeditions, Adventure Consultants and Mountain Madness, and the tragic event on May 10, 1996. These two commercial expeditions were lead by Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, and were consisted of 20 members. Both leaders were experienced climbers, but due to several factors, the expedition resulted into five deaths including Hall and Fischer. The event has thought managers to evaluate the importance of leadership together with its internal and external factors that managers should consider to survive in the high risk business world.

With death being an inevitable conclusion to life, it can be said that the true value of a life is not determined by how long it was lived or what was done during its time, but from what it left behind. In a sport of pushing the physical and psychological boundaries, climbers seek recognition in their achievements, whether it is by finding a new climb that will measure its test of time or being the first to climb a daunting line

The Cat In The Hat by Dr. Seuss, pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel, tells a story of two children at home on a rainy day alone, being visited by the Cat in the Hat and the turmoil that he causes. The Cat In The Hat is clearly Geisel’s most famous book, written in 1956 and published in 1957, considered a children’s classic today. It was The Cat In The Hat “where Dr. Seuss jubilantly breaks the barriers of the basal reader’s simplistic language and pedestrian artwork” (MacDonald 10). In The Cat In The Hat, Geisel uses this childish language and comical pictures as well as an interesting story and fun characters to not only create a successful children’s book but to deliver a subtle political message of rebellion against authority.