Friday, December 4, 2009

Nature Writing~~Essay Draft

I believe that endurance and self-control are the two main qualities that make a person fit to climb Everest and possibly lead to disaster.
By being mentally prepared to endure the harsh conditions, obstacles, and hardhips that are presented to a climber while trying to climb Everst before you even began climbing on the mountain itself, you are already placing yourself further and further towards the top. Endurance can really go a long ways, simply because it's an emotional quality that can not only help mentally but physically as well. It's one thing to know your mind set before you get to the battle, but it's another when you actuakky began to fight it. Once you're on the mountain, the winds, risks, weather, thin air, and limited oxygen, are all external forces that a climber gas to be ready and wiling to deal with when climbing Everest. However, no matter how mentally or prepared a climber might be, having endurance can also possibly lead to a disaster.
It is possible for a climber to focus so much on endurance that they actually end up using all their energy, leaving them with nothing but hope and the little bit of frozed mind they have left to continue on. Eventually as a result, their body will slowly began to shut down, having to either be carried by a sherpa, freeze to death, or fall hundreds of feet down the side of Everese itself. That's why if a climber wants to even have a good chance of enduring the hardships of Everset, they need to be able to pace all the endurance out, saving and using energy when time to do so.
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I Believe that the sugnificance of more guides dying than clients is simple. Most of the time when a person has to repeatedly do simething, they eventually start to beliieve that they know what they're doing and they're going to do it reat every time since they've done it so many times, resulting in relaxed caution and constant careful thinking. Whereas a person who's doing something for the first time, does do everything a lot more careful, and uses caution to the fullest. So maybe when it was time for the guides to lead the clients, they became a little too relaxed about their duty and their goal of getting the clents to the top, while the clients remained focus on safely getting to the top and being a lot more aware of what was going on since it was their first time.
Also, the guides' bodies have been exposed to those kind of altitudes and thin airs more than the clients so the cllients' bodies might have had more energy stored in them than the guides did.

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