Personal Narrative: Saddle Mountain

The drive up was beautiful, even though the road was really windy and made me car sick it was still really cool to see. We stopped a couple times on the way up to avoid any barfing and the view at every stop was amazing, the sky was mostly clear with just a few clouds in the distance so

Mountain climbing is a very tough activity that includes years of training before someone is ready to complete an exhilarating climb. Looking around the world, there are many amazing places to climb. Although two of the most difficult and intense climbs include the Devil’s Thumb in Alaska and Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on earth. “Everest,” by Erik Weihenmayer and “The Devils Thumb,” by Jon Krakauer have some similarities and some differences in terms of the author’s perspective, organization structure, and tone and word choice. As the two authors wrote, they showed their struggles and feats of every situation through words. With those words, they created visual images for the reader and enhanced their imagination of the journey.

The nonfiction book, Into Thin Air, is about a personal account on Mount Everest, the highest mountain on our earth, by Jon Krakauer. Krakauer wrote an article about the commercialization of the mountain and as well as its manpower. Commercialization had impacted the way people look at climbing mountains, matching Mount Everest and a few are positive and negative to people. Mount Everest’s respect has turned into a joke by the rapid change of commercialization.

There is a trip that not many do because of how many people who do not make it back from the hike. What people hike up is a waterfall is called Yosemite Falls and it is the tallest waterfall in California. So when my family and I go camping there we always talk about how we should try to hike it, but we never actually do because of how scared we are. One year though some of my family members and I decided to go to the top because of how much we have wanted to do it for so long. So what we did was we all went to bed early so we could wake up early. This hike is a long one the trip up and down if you walk fast can be about an eight-hour hike. We did not have that much experience hiking up anything this enormous besides a hike that was three miles

It was one of those scorching summer day that always brought the same circumstances day in and day out. Dehydration, strokes, hyperthermia, and fevers were just some of the conditions that happen to people on a typical summer day in the Grand Canyon State. Also, weather was always a vigorous barricade that strained people from being active outside, but that would not restrain me from backpacking Camelback Mountain. I’ve heard numberless intimidating stories about people dying as well as obtaining severe injuries, but that was not about to terrify me. Today was the day that I was going to overcome my fears by hiking one of the uttermost difficult mountains in Arizona, Camelback Mountain.

Many of them are inexperienced and would undoubtedly never make it to the top without a guide. The one unifying characteristic shared by all of the climbers is that they have money—enough to shell out $65,000 a piece for their shot at the top. Krakauer spends long chapters giving his best, most educated guesses about why climbers made certain decisions, and what happened to the people who disappeared. This is an exercise that must result in major frustration, as no one can be entirely sure what took place. Many mistakes later, Krakauer manages to piece together an outline of what happened to whom and when during the climb, but the questions he struggles with in almost every situation are "why" and "how". In the long run, Krakauer concludes that complete arrogance is in part to blame for the tragedy that takes place on Everest. Hall "bragged on more than one occasion that he could get almost any reasonably fit person to the summit." Their arrogance also caused their clients to lower their guard and not fully appreciate the risks of the expedition. Overall, Krakauer taught many different themes within the novel that everyone should

In the non-fiction survival story, Into Thin Air, author Jon Krakauer recounts the traumatizing events of his adventure to the Summit of Mount Everest. Krakauer tells of his experiences in depth while attempting the climb and explains how his childhood dream to climb Everest became a grim reality. We follow Krakauer as he ascends the mountain and faces much life altering events, and as he struggles to cope with these experiences afterward. While analyzing their story, readers may wonder why Krakauer’s team and thousands of other thrill seekers would feel compelled to attempt such a painstaking journey. Throughout his experience Krakauer’s outlook on climbing Everest changes from feeling excited for an opportunity to fulfill his childhood ambition, to feeling pain and turmoil as he realizes the consequences of attempting such a feat.

Survival : the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances. In school, we read the book Peak by Roland Smith. The novel is about a fourteen year old boy with the urge to get to a mountain again after he moved to New York City. The closest thing to a mountain remotely near him is the New York City skyline. Until he took on Everest. The majority of this book is his journey up the mountain. I feel this book overall shows the types of conflicts and survival they had to go through during his journey.

The three most physically challenging events are saddle bronc riding, bareback riding and bull riding, the cowboys rely on the horses and bulls that can kick high and buck powerfully. While critics of these events

Fischer gives a biased view on guiding the mountain by explaining, “[We’ve] built a yellow brick road to the summit,” (Krakauer 86). Fischer explains to the clients he will get them all there and it will be an easy time if they just follow the leader. Rob Hall took a more rational approach to his client’s abilities by telling them, “With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill.The trick is to get back down alive,” (Krakauer 190). Hall explains when the climbers have a lot of energy on the way up they are focused on success, but on the way down they are exhausted and having reached the summit, lack determination to complete a goal. Hall required the clients to stay close together so if they ever required assistance the guides would be right there, where Fischer lead a more loosely run expedition allowing the clients to free climb up the mountain at their own pace. The distances between clients made him have to run around to help people at all different points. This made Fischer exhausted, “Fischer walked through our camp with a clenched jaw, moving uncharacteristically slowly toward his own tents,” (Krakauer 191). Come summit day Fischer was tired, leaving his group down a guide, and Rob Hall forced his clients to stick together, arriving at the summit at very late times. Both expeditions had their rules, or lack of rules, that in the end, created a problem when the storm

People have had a penchant for seeking thrills for a long time. Whether it is skiing fast, base jumping, or racing, people have been chasing the rush of adrenaline and the feeling of accomplishment from participating in such activities. Mountain climbing has been one of these thrills that people have participated in for years. The arduous task of scaling a mountain has mesmerized people and inspired them to climb it seeking fame and accolades. But is also inspires them to challenge themselves and prove to themselves that they can do anything. Both reasons have been are evident in the memoirs “Devil’s Thumb” by John Krakauer and “Everest” by Erik Weihenmayer. Both articles have many similarities and differences shown through their perspective,

A: When my mom passed away I was really heart broken and I felt apart. I turned to something’s I shouldn’t have. I

Fearing that the pack will slow him from his natural pace and prevent him from reaching the summit before 2 p.m., the designated turn around time, he “Leapfrogg[s] past others” (Krakauer 168). To one who is unaware of climbing techniques, this might not sound like a huge deal; but every time that a climber passes someone, he must disengage his harness from the line. By doing so, he puts his life at risk of falling with nothing to catch him. This could result in a fluke accident that would in turn take his life or at the very least severely injure him. However this is not the only risk, he is also exerting so much extra energy to leapfrog the others, that he is tempting his body to vomit in his oxygen mask. This would result in him having no supplemental oxygen for the rest of the ascent. Once Krakauer climbed to the top of the mountain, he became so consumed by the breathtaking view, that he neglected to check his oxygen tank. Later he realized his, “oxygen tank [...] was almost empty,” (Krakauer 9). This is a serious issue because being at such a high altitude without supplemental oxygen puts Krakauer at an extreme risk of contracting HAPE, HACE, or other severe high altitude sicknesses that could result in death. So that he can reach the next oxygen tank that has been set aside for him further down

The entire day had been a struggle as we slipped on the various rocks underneath our feet as we made our way up Mt. Phillips. Every ten minutes our Scoutmaster, Mr. Britton, would gleefully shout, and “Come on boys, just a little more climbing and we will be at the top.” Although I wanted to believe him, I was running out of energy. This was the most difficult challenge I had ever faced in my seventeen years of life and I felt like quitting, but I did not want to let Mr. Britton down.

It all started by deciding on where we wanted to go.At first we wanted to go to the beach. Our second choice was to go to Disney World. At the end we finally made a decision on where we were going. We were finally going to Disney World I would have preferred the beach just a little bit. But at the end i'm finally able to go on a family trip. Two days have passed every day has been more and more exciting for my brother and I. My brother was so excited one day that he was already in the car because he thought that we were already heading to the airport.The night that we were leaving we had to wake up at 3:00 in the morning.The intence was when we were heading to the airport.