Reflective Essay: Life Was Good On Aspen Mountain

The fire is growing and no one knows we’re here. We are going to die unless we get out of this elevator.” Alex looks up at me with pure panic and rage. Before I know what is happening, my feet move towards his hands, then I stop. I lunge myself into his arms and hug him as if I’ll never be able too again. I pull myself away and lock my eyes with his.

“Ahh!”, I yelled with fear. I was hurtling towards a human. A little boy was sitting under a tree, I can tell he was going to squeeze me to death as I looked at his wicked face. I tried to fly towards the other direction but I wasn't strong enough to withstand the mighty winds. With only three seconds to live I am

The 1996 novel, Brian’s Winter is a fictional nature survival story that focuses on Brian, the protagonist. Brian’s Winter is the alternate ending to Hatchet, the first book in which Brian is in a plane crash, and is rescued after having spent just over forty-five days alone in the Canadian wilderness. In Brian's Winter, the author Gary Paulsen experiments with what would have happened if Brian had been left in the Canadian wilderness during winter. The separation starts with Brian noticing cold weather on a day of fall hunting. Brian prepares himself for winter performing all of the necessary survival tasks.

I was so hyped that I finally learned Snowboarding. After all those years only going on small hills on my heel edge, I finally was doing toe edge. We went up the hill for a couple of more runs, and just like you already know we got on the chairlift and put on our bindings once we got off. We went all the way to the right side of the hill and carved down the soft snow. While I was going down, my board hit a small ice ball and my board caught an edge and I landed hard on my butt.

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.

Anatoli Boukreev was born on January 16, 1958 In Korkino. He was a Russian mountaineer who climbed 10 of the 14 peaks at eight thousand meters. Boukreev was well known for his ascent, and also for his heroic event in 1996 when he saved climbers in the Mount Everest disaster. In 1997 Boukreev was killed in an avalanche during an ascent of Annapurna located in Nepal. At age 21, Anatoli dreamed of mountain climbing.

Brian’s adventure begins when the pilot dies and Brian is forced to fly the plane before he ultimately crashes the plane into the wilderness, separating him from his family and the rest of civilization. Brian is very similar to many of the other heroes in young adult literature. One of the ways he is similiar is through his quest for identity. The divorce between Brian’s parents made his life unstable and muddied his sense of self. When the plane crashes in the woods, Brian then has to learn to grown up and survive.

Adversity is bad luck, hardships, challenges, problems or essentially, anything that can go wrong. People face adversity every day and the way that you overcome it is up to you. Adversity could simply be a small argument or can be as big as a fire or a disability of some sort. Some people face these problems by turning away or giving up and just leaving it but other people will fight it and do almost anything to get rid of the problem. An example of this is Nando Parrado when he and 44 other people crashed on the Andes Mountains and Nando, with the help of his friend Roberto, walked out of the Andes to get help and save the remaining survivors.

I turned away from this driveway though a giant white colored dilapidated gate emitting a strange black aura appeared behind me and blocks my only way out. I desperately just want to leave so I had intentions of hopping the fence though the gate slammed itself open releasing a fury of wind which nearly knocks me back as I threw my arms in front of my face as if I could block this immense force. As soon as the wind ceased I found myself imbibed in that dark aura and within a matter of seconds it had consumed me whole as I reached toward the sky hoping I could cling on to something to break free from it all… then I heard a painfully familiar voice speak to

How did this guy find his hut, it was in a non visible part of the forest and was covered in bushes, was one of the many thoughts that flooded Peter’s head. He ran as fast as his legs could carry him, and yelled at the guy to stop, but the carriage was being pulled by two horses. Peter eventually ran out of breath and dropped to the ground. He was filled with waves of emptiness, desperation and sadness, followed by a wave of guilt. It was way past time that he realised, and experienced how awful what he did to other kings was.