Mount Hood Case Study

Tom Ryan had hiked as a kid with his father, so he knew the basic wilderness rules. On top of that, there was a fee of sixty-five thousand dollars to be guided up the mountain. Due to their inexperience the climbers going up Mount Everest died. They were behind schedule and they had a certain window to get to the top. One man was on his third trip up the mountain and had never reached the summit before so he told the guide that he did not really care what happened to him, he just wanted to get to the summit.

Once they hit summit and were at the top of the mountain, some of the groups caught in the end by the storm. Sadly, Hansen, Hall and Fischer were left stranded. Hansen ran out of oxygen, and Fischer was found dead. Some groups were saved, but others were presumed dead. Krakauer survived and achieved the task of climbing the mountain that most people would not or could not do.

David and his team had been climbing Everest and doing the IMAX film at the same time the other three expeditions had been climbing Everest in 1996. On the morning of May 10th his expedition team as well as himself had made it to the summit and were able to capture amazing shots on the summit with clear blue skies for their film. During the time that they were climbing down from the summit, they had passed many people from the other expeditions, whom they would be later rescuing. When David had made it to camp two, the storm had started. Even though his own life was at risk, he had put his 5.5 million dollar film at risk and decided to help rescue people on Everest.

In 1996, 29,029 feet above sea level, a expedition to climb Earth's largest mountain went horribly wrong. In the autobiography, Into Thin Air, eight climbers lost their lives trying to descend from the top of the world making this the second worse fatality rate ever to occur on Mount Everest. To be able to successively climb Mount Everest, clients must be intellectually competent, which is one of the pillars of the Grad at Grad. Being Intellectually Competent means that students go above and beyond the expectation both academically and in every day experiences, while taking the knowledge students learn in class and present it into the community. Jon Krakauer, the author, shows in his expedition multiple cases of him growing to be Intellectually

Beck Weathers, a pathologist from Dallas, is not a likely to be seen as a strong character. In fact, even the author’s first impression of Weathers was that Weathers was only “looking to buy the summit of Everest for his trophy case,” but after a while, the author agreed that Weathers was the strongest member on the expedition (170). Despite his torn mountain boots, Weathers kept climbing up Everest without even talking about his pain (171). This shows his strong character because many other members of the expedition, including the author, frequently complained about their fatigue and pain, and some even stayed back on a few days. In addition to this pain, Weathers should have been hindered by his radial keratotomy, which affected his eyesight

I’m William Dilley, I was camping with neighbors when this tragic event unfortunately happened. We thought we were safe but the big clouds of ashes kept approaching. There were people camping on the other side of us, but unfortunately they didn't make it. Martha is my neighbor and her and I were sent out here to investigate the mountain.

In “Blind to Failure”, Erik Weihenmayer has many good character traits. Particularly he is extraordinary, brave, and very committed. To begin, Erik proves himself to be extraordinary when he decides to take on a great challenge, disregarding his disability, and his reasoning was “I knew that if I went and failed, that would feel better if I didn’t go at all. ”(277) I consider this to be extraordinary because not only does he climb Everest, but he is also blind.

Mann Gulch Disaster Dodge led a small team of smoke jumpers to fight a seemingly routine 10 o’clock forest fire. Unbeknownst to any team member, they would soon find themselves in a critical situation. Shortly after landing, the wind suddenly changed direction, changing the intensity and course of the fire. In turn, it prevented the team from reaching the river, their only safety net.

Imogene Glover- Even though Imogene Glover’s story is a bit sad, it is interesting to learn about the way people adapted to the dust bowl. From using telephone poles to drive by, or taking only necessary tools into the cellar, it was neat to see how people dealt with the storms. Melt White- In Melt White 's story, it’s weird to know that many people thought the dust storms and meteor would be the end of the world.

Noted for her prominence in a number of Colorado’s climbing associations, Agnes Vaille was the first woman to successfully scale the east face of Longs Peak, which ultimately cost her her life. In James Pickering’s section of Western Voices: 125 Years of Colorado Writing, titled “Tragedy on Longs Peak: Walter Kiener’s Own Story,” the tragedy of Agnes Vaille is recounted by her climbing companion Walter Kiener, who had imparted the story to Charles Hewes. Kiener’s tale reminisces the harrowing nature of Vaille’s death on Longs Peak and the struggle to retrieve her frozen body, which resulted in the death of Herbert Sortland, the caretaker at the Longs Peak Inn. However traumatic this story, Hewes had chosen not to include it in his autobiographical journal that was published six years after her death. Detailed in Pickering’s report is the recovery of Kiener’s story, the nature of Vaille’s death, and who was responsible for Vaille and Sortland’s deaths, as well as the controversies surrounding each issue.

The Big Hike The grade 7 students at ladner elementary went to Evans Lake, and had a awesome time, Sukhman Sidhu one of the grade 7’s at Ladner Elementary told us a story about the big hike and asked if we could share the story, so we are here to tell you about the story “The Big Hike”. It was around 10:00 am when the grade 7’s went on a hike, on this hike they hiked up a mountain, and at the top chief told them a story. It was a beautiful day at Evans Lake, all the students were lined up in front of the rec hall in their cabin groups waiting for instructions. At around 10:10 the teachers gave the students information and instructions, they were informed that they were going on a hike and it would take about 40 minutes to hike up the mountain and 40 minutes to hike down the mountain, all the students were very happy.

Pikes Peak This past summer I went on vacation with my aunt’s family to Colorado, and being from iowa, the land of corn and flat ground, we wanted to do all the mountain things you can do in Colorado. one very memorable mountain we visited was Pikes Peak, one of the tallest mountains in Colorado 14,114 thousand feet above sea level. There are two ways you can get to the top of Pikes Peak, you can drive up the side of the mountain, or you can ride the train up the other side, if you ride the train then you can only be on the top for 20 to 30 minutes, but if you drive you can do whatever you want, so we chose to drive up. The drive up was beautiful, even though the road was really windy and made me car sick it was still really cool to see.

Although I had skied before, I had never ventured beyond the low intermediate, beginner runs. Making my way to what I thought was a slightly more advanced chair lift I soon realized that it had been a grave mistake when I reached the top. Ultimately, I had two choices: to try my luck and hopefully make it down the mountain alive, or to wait to board a returning chairlift to the bottom. In the heat of the moment I decided to go for it, not knowing

In “To Build A Fire” the author Jack London uses the contrast of humanity and nature to illustrate how fallible we are. We repeatedly see instances where mistakes return to haunt the man. Jack London as a prospector undoubtedly saw many deaths like these. Prospectors who thought the rules were for the“womanish”, who were later found dead, or never found at all.

The mystery of Dyatlov Pass has many theories as to what could have possibly happened to these ten graduates of the Ural Polytechnical Institute, which still to this day is an unsolved mystery. The hikers started out their adventure arriving by train in Ivdel, from Ivdel they travelled to Vizhay by truck. While having a late start to their hike, on January 31 they arrived at an abandoned camp where they were able to retrieve food and extra supplies they could use throughout their hike. They planned that their hike would take about 14 days to complete but, when those 14 days came and they had not returned, the families of the hikers began to worry.