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Persuasive Essay On Helicopter Rescuers

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Climbers should not have a right to be saved when doing risky things. There are many dangerous ways it could affect rescuers life’s and climbers at the time. For example it is very risky for rescuers on the run to save climbers, altitude is too high when on helicopter rescue, and the lack of oxygen for the rescuers saving climbers on a short amount of time. There are lots of reasons why climbers should not have a right to be rescued.
A rescuer died just for saving a climber's life. In the newspaper article of “Ranger Killed During Rescue of Climbers on Mount Rainier” a ranger died Thursday afternoon while rescuing climbers, fell into a crevasse. Nick Hall fell down the mountains northeast side from 13,700 foot level. “ more than 200 bodies remain dead on the Mount Everest.” That also means other rescuers died attempting to rescue climbers. In the Informational Article of “ Why Everest” it states that if you “add weight on the helicopter rescue, it’s going to lose lift for the rescuer inside the helicopter which is going to crash attempting to rescue the climber.” If you’re going to go rescue someone with more than one climber, it could kill the climbers and the rescuer. …show more content…

In the Ratio Interview of “Helicopter Rescues Increasing on Everest” it states that “Helicopters have difficulty flying in high altitudes” which means that it is very hard for helicopters to fly at high heights when rescuing a climber. You would see one go by once a day or every hour. The farthest a helicopter can fly up to is about 19,000 ft and cost about 2 million dollars to buy a new helicopter. This article also states that “ The helicopter could only take about 1 climber each round. The air is very thin and requires to utilize more power to stay a loft up in the air.” It is very dangerous because people are up in very high with low oxygen and 1

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