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A-Mr. Hatten, the class and the world wide web
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T-my spring break and comments about third trimester
Well Mr. Hatten and the world wide web,
My spring break was really relaxing and wonderful :D.
I slept till noon almost every day, i went tanning and tried to get more color that my friend.
That didnt work out. Also, my brother had the same spring break as me so he came home from college. That was fun. Although he basically ate all of our food. I lived at other peoples houses all week to tell the truth. It was a very loonngg week, which was good, for the most part. I am very much looking forward to third trimester because i am determined to get all of this computer stuff, with blogger and all that jazz. Im sure that Mr. Hatten is very happy to know that he has both Miranda and I in the same class in this wonderful fifth hour english class this trimester. We would just like to let him know we will try... TRY to keep the talking down a bit.
No promises however.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
works cited
Peter Potterfield, Mountain Zone staff, "Anatoli Boukreev,
Legendary Climber Killed on Annapurna"
Pete Thomas, times staff writer, " Morality on a Slippery Slope"
June 1, 2006, pp. A1+
Robin Marks, Mountain Zone Staff, "Guide Scott Fischer
Dies on Mount Everest" Wednesday, March 07, 2007
"How many dead bodies are up on Mount Everest?", Yahoo,
Tuesday November 2, 2004
The Associated Press. "Everest Pioneer Condemns Climbers"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5433982
Legendary Climber Killed on Annapurna"
Pete Thomas, times staff writer, " Morality on a Slippery Slope"
June 1, 2006, pp. A1+
Robin Marks, Mountain Zone Staff, "Guide Scott Fischer
Dies on Mount Everest" Wednesday, March 07, 2007
"How many dead bodies are up on Mount Everest?", Yahoo,
Tuesday November 2, 2004
The Associated Press. "Everest Pioneer Condemns Climbers"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5433982
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Outline
Intro
attention getter-
preview- more people now than ever are making the climb to the summit of
Mt. Everest, and the deaths keep adding up.
thesis- too many people are dying while climbing on mt. everest due to lack of training.
Body
#1-according to http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hatt0047/everestarticles/LATimes, climber-guide Rob Hall, was one of nine mountaineers who died all in one day during a freak storm in the Death Zone in 1996
http://ask.yahoo.com/20041102.html, as of 2002 about 175 people were said to have died on Mt. everest.
most of which are still on the mountain now. also there are around 41 bodies located on the north side of the mountain. in the article (http://classic.mountainzone.com/climbing/fischer/)
"May 10, 1996, a severe and sudden storm trapped several climbers high on Mt. Everest as they were descending from the summit. In what has become the deadliest single tragedy in the mountain's climbing history, a total of eight people perished. One of them is renowned Seattle climbing guide Scott Fischer." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5433982 says.
"More than 1,500 climbers have reached the summit of Mount Everest in the last 53 years and some 190 have died trying."
#2-according to http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hatt0047/everestarticles/LATimes, by overcrowding and by the people helping you up the mountain having a "summit-or-bust" attitude to make the high fees they charge clients who, in some cases, lack adequate climbing experience justifiable.
also, conditions are really bad in the "Death Zone", which is above 25,000 feet, where there is little oxygen, the winds are freezing and temperatures reach 100 below. an attempt to rescue someone can be deadly.
#3-in the article "Deadly Peak" (http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hatt0047/everestarticles/deadly), these things have claimed many lives
- Triple-digit wind chills, sudden blizzards, avalanches, mile-deep crevasses, teetering 12-story ice chunks, sheer terrain.
- Potentially fatal mountain sickness, including pulmonary edema, in which the lungs fill with fluid, or cerebral edema, in which the brain does.
- An oxygen content that is one-third of that at sea level, requiring climbers to breathe four times as fast, or about 50 times a minute.
- Air so dry it causes the water content in the blood to drop from 50 percent to 15 percent, making it sluggish and the body prone to frostbite.
- A parched throat that often produces a hacking cough violent enough to crack ribs.
- Insomnia, due in part to a subconscious fear of suffocating.
- Impaired decision-making ability. (Climbers tested at high altitude have been found to take twice as long as the average 6-year-old to understand a simple sentence.)
- Hypothermia. Exhaustion. Hallucinations.
- And then there is the "Death Zone," the area above 25,000 feet where bottled oxygen is necessary to sustain life, and every other hazard is exacerbated.
#4-it used to be for the professionals who could endure climbing without a certain amount of oxygen, but now anyone who has money can go up there witch increases the danger they are putting themselves in.
Conclusion
restate-too many people are dying while climbing on mt. everest due to lack of training.
restate body- there is much evidence that proves that an overwhelming amount of people die on this treacherous trek up to the summit. due to things such as low oxygen, mountain sickness, inability to function and more.
solution-
my solution to this problem would be not allowing people to go up the mountain without excessive amounts of training for this climb. no one should be able to go up there by just paying a certain amount of money. Money doesn't replace training.
attention go-er
works cited
attention getter-
preview- more people now than ever are making the climb to the summit of
Mt. Everest, and the deaths keep adding up.
thesis- too many people are dying while climbing on mt. everest due to lack of training.
Body
#1-according to http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hatt0047/everestarticles/LATimes, climber-guide Rob Hall, was one of nine mountaineers who died all in one day during a freak storm in the Death Zone in 1996
http://ask.yahoo.com/20041102.html, as of 2002 about 175 people were said to have died on Mt. everest.
most of which are still on the mountain now. also there are around 41 bodies located on the north side of the mountain. in the article (http://classic.mountainzone.com/climbing/fischer/)
"May 10, 1996, a severe and sudden storm trapped several climbers high on Mt. Everest as they were descending from the summit. In what has become the deadliest single tragedy in the mountain's climbing history, a total of eight people perished. One of them is renowned Seattle climbing guide Scott Fischer." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5433982 says.
"More than 1,500 climbers have reached the summit of Mount Everest in the last 53 years and some 190 have died trying."
#2-according to http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hatt0047/everestarticles/LATimes, by overcrowding and by the people helping you up the mountain having a "summit-or-bust" attitude to make the high fees they charge clients who, in some cases, lack adequate climbing experience justifiable.
also, conditions are really bad in the "Death Zone", which is above 25,000 feet, where there is little oxygen, the winds are freezing and temperatures reach 100 below. an attempt to rescue someone can be deadly.
#3-in the article "Deadly Peak" (http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hatt0047/everestarticles/deadly), these things have claimed many lives
- Triple-digit wind chills, sudden blizzards, avalanches, mile-deep crevasses, teetering 12-story ice chunks, sheer terrain.
- Potentially fatal mountain sickness, including pulmonary edema, in which the lungs fill with fluid, or cerebral edema, in which the brain does.
- An oxygen content that is one-third of that at sea level, requiring climbers to breathe four times as fast, or about 50 times a minute.
- Air so dry it causes the water content in the blood to drop from 50 percent to 15 percent, making it sluggish and the body prone to frostbite.
- A parched throat that often produces a hacking cough violent enough to crack ribs.
- Insomnia, due in part to a subconscious fear of suffocating.
- Impaired decision-making ability. (Climbers tested at high altitude have been found to take twice as long as the average 6-year-old to understand a simple sentence.)
- Hypothermia. Exhaustion. Hallucinations.
- And then there is the "Death Zone," the area above 25,000 feet where bottled oxygen is necessary to sustain life, and every other hazard is exacerbated.
#4-it used to be for the professionals who could endure climbing without a certain amount of oxygen, but now anyone who has money can go up there witch increases the danger they are putting themselves in.
Conclusion
restate-too many people are dying while climbing on mt. everest due to lack of training.
restate body- there is much evidence that proves that an overwhelming amount of people die on this treacherous trek up to the summit. due to things such as low oxygen, mountain sickness, inability to function and more.
solution-
my solution to this problem would be not allowing people to go up the mountain without excessive amounts of training for this climb. no one should be able to go up there by just paying a certain amount of money. Money doesn't replace training.
attention go-er
works cited
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