Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Would you change your decision to climb Mt. Everest after reading this book?
If you were a mountain climber who wanted to test out his/her ability to climb Everest, would you change your mind after reading the book. You don't have to be finished with the book to answer the question, you only had to have reached the tragedy. I would not change my mind. If I was going to attempt to summit Everest I would have known there was going to be some risk involved. Reading the book might shock me, but in the end I would try climb Everest. It would be such a great feeling to be standing on top of the world, and if I felt I was up for the challange, I would do it.
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Parker Monterubio, February 14, 2007
After I read the book I would definitely not climb Mt. Everest any time in the future. Once I read what happened to the climbers I changed my mind. Before I read this book I thought to climb Mt. Everest would be a fun and exciting experience. Little did I know how dangerous it is to climb Mt. Everest. The chance of dieing one out of six is a risk I am not willing to make. In conclusion I would not try to climb Everest.
No, I would not change my mind to climb Everest beacuase that was a one in a million storm. That time of year on Everest is usually rather calm. If I was an expierienced climber I would climb it.
After reading this book I would definatly not climb Everest. I would not climb it in the first place but after reading about the hardships and chances of dieing I would definantly not. Those are my reasons why I would not climb Everest
Reading Into Thin Air hasn’t changed my opinion on climbing Everest, because I didn’t want to climb it in the first place. It has taught me that it is a lot more dangerous than I thought in the first place. Even though I knew that the winds are really fast and it is freezing, I learned more about hallucination and being up really high in that altitude.
This book would not have changed my decision to climb Everest if I was a climber. I would still climb it but I would be much more careful and aware of the bad things that could happen. I would still take risks but as we learned in the book you should always stick too your schedule no matter what the circumstances, I mean you saw what happened to the people who didn’t. This book would defiantly have an affect on my climbing but it would defiantly not change my decision on climbing Everest.
I would still climb the mountain because I would know that there is a chance of me dying, and that many people die there each year. If I really wanted to climb, it would only drive me more because it would make me want to show that I truly deserve to climb. Otherwise, it would show me that I would need to be careful on my own ascent.
Adam
February 14, 2007
After reading this book my opnion of Mount Everest has changed. At first I thought it would be fun and exciting to make it to the top. After reading the book I saw what a great chance there is of me dying. If I did die it would be a horrible, slow, painful death, and that is not the way I want to die. Even if I didn't die, if one of my teammates died I would never be able to live with myself. I would feel like I could have done something to save him. I also would be disturbed by the fact that I had witnessed someones death. After reading Into Thin Air, I no longer want to climb Mount Everest.
Into Thin Air has definitely changed my view on Mt. Everest. When we started reading the book, it sounded fun to be able to climb up to the roof of the world and be able to accomplish such an amazing climb. But after we got more into the book it made me scared of the risk of dying and injuring myself. Now, I don’t want to climb Everest after knowing what it could do to you and how it could affect your life in awful ways.
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