https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21 Jon Krakauer en-us 2019-11-12 19:37:16 UTC 2025-10-07 10:00:57 UTC hello@padlet.com lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433453763 As Jon Krakauer grew up he strived to be a climber. Even into his adulthood Jon climbed with the ultimate goal of climbing Mt. Everest. Although after many years of hope he never had the opportunity to climb Everest.]]> 2020-01-19 21:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433453763 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433455423 Jon began to realize his chances of climbing Everst were slim he knew the opportunity would be very unlikely and he needed a job to support himself. Jon found a job as a reporter in his mid twenties and had a family.]]> 2020-01-19 21:28:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433455423 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433455813 After many years Jon had finally recieved an outbreak, "Outbreak" magazine had asked John to climb and report a climb to the top of Everest with two of the best climbers in the world Scott Fischer and Rob Hall in 1996. The group consisted of mailman Doug Hudson, ski instructors Tim Manson and Sharlotte hoff, dentist Bill Cruise,Yasuko Namba (Japanese idole), a wealthy woman Sandy Hillpiton, and a pathologist Beck Weathers. While Jon went as a journalist.]]> 2020-01-19 21:31:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433455813 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433457739 Upon the ascent it took ten days to reach base camp 17,000 feet, where they would spend 3 weeks preparing and being taught how to climb. begining the climb from base camp the group was already feeling unease and it wasn't long until they reached base camp II where a Napal man was not wearing boots and was pushed off the mountainside and died.]]> 2020-01-19 21:45:41 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433457739 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433461453 While Scott Fischer and Rob Hall had decided to bring the two groups together a man named Dale from Scott Fischers group had become extremely ill. In order for him to stay alive it required Fischer to hike four hours to base camp II and four hours back up to base camp III which left him extremly exhausted and out of shape.]]> 2020-01-19 22:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433461453 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433461983 Rob Hall and his commands are much safer and efficent than Scott Fischer. In many scenarios Fischer allows his group choose their own decision even with their own inexpirence, on the other hand Rob Hall gives commands to his team on how to successfully reach the summit safely and descend with the highest possible chance of living.]]> 2020-01-19 22:19:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433461983 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433462285 Three men Andy(the guide for the first time on Everest), Anatoli Boukreev(A Russian), and Jon. The three were all extremely lightheaded and brains functioning like a reptile. But the three did reach the summit first just after Hillary step(the hardest climb of the mountain)]]> 2020-01-19 22:21:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433462285 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433466353 The turnaround time once nearing the summit was 2pm no later no matter what you must turn around. Jon, Anatoli, and Andy made it to the summit at 1:30 and left just in time while the rest of the group who had not yet reached the summit continued at their own risk coming in from the range time of 2:30pm and 4:30pm leaving them in a very bad position especially with a storm building up.]]> 2020-01-19 22:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433466353 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433468365 While Andy, Jon, and Anatoli safely returned back to camp the rest of the group had summited but on the descent an extradonarily quick storm swept in taking the tempature below -100 degrees, hallucinating began to kick in as the group began to see stars. Just a few hundred feet above Rob Hall was stranded and his legs were frozen and the oxygen he needed was 200 feet away. Finally above Rob Hall was Scott Fischer and Doug who had just died falling off the cliff.]]> 2020-01-19 23:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433468365 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433471062 In the rescue to Rob Hall, Andy had gone out and found Rob Hall only to be swept off his feet and off the summit to his death. While Scott Fischer on the other hand had passed out and was most likely dead at the time from hypothermia. Anatoli went after Sandy who was left behind and brought her back to camp safe and alive. Just an hour after though did Rob Hall hallucinate about his wife and the name of their daughter who was about to be born. As Rob talked to his wife they decided on the name Sarah and Rob knew he couldn't move becuase of his non functioning legs and thereafter stopped at his spot and died.]]> 2020-01-19 23:36:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433471062 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433472209 With the remaining of the group resting through the storm a sudden and extreme miracle had happened. Beck(the doctor) had an eye surgery a few years earlier and the affects of the altitude caused him to be unable to see. After the storm subsided he awoke covered in snow, but he got up unaware of his direction he finally reached camp IV and immediately recieved medical attention bringing his body back to normal temperature.]]> 2020-01-19 23:49:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433472209 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433472933 Beck Weathers lost his right hand, fingers from his left hand, and his nose to frostbite, but he has been able to return to his work as a pathologist. And for Jon himself he still climbs often but has no intention of ever going back to Everest]]> 2020-01-19 23:57:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433472933 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433543139 Between 1921 and May 1996, 144 people have died climbing Everest. The percentages create an extremely dangerous attempt and warning to those who dare face Everest. Jon says "A ratio of one in four, last spring 12 climbers died."(287)]]> 2020-01-20 07:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433543139 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433544072 Yasuko Namba was the oldest woman to summit Mount Everest at the age of 47 years old. She was idolized from many Japanese. Yasuko did summit but did not survive the descent. Yasuko became incredibly fatigued and Jon realized her situation and clipped her to himself and pulled her down the mountain but as time passed Jon was becoming incredibly fatigued and Namba was soon dead to hypothermia and left behind by Jon.]]> 2020-01-20 07:14:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433544072 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433545992 Kruse was apart of Fischers expidition and had become extremely ill just about 20,000 feet into the ascent and could barely put on his clothing. If it weren't for Fischers quick realization that Kruse had put on his grapple backwards and he would have fallen to his death on Lhotse Face on his descent. Kruse describes it as "It was like I was very drunk" and "I couldn't walk without stumbling, and completely lost the ability to think or speak. It was a really strange feeling."(145)]]> 2020-01-20 07:23:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433545992 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433547470 Rob Hall and Scott Fischer were being payed extremely high amounts of money for these climbers to successfully summit Mount Everest and return to the bottom safely. The fee was averaging to around $60,000 to $75,000 for each person just to summit.]]> 2020-01-20 07:29:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433547470 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433548036 Nepal's economy has been very poor and polluted by climbers who just leave behind their footprints on the mountain so as a price Nepal has chosen to raise prices for climbing Everest begining with a $2,300 permit to climb Everest. A $10,000 fee was charged for a party of nine climbers in 1992. According to Jon Krakauer he says "The government ministers jacked up the permit fee once again this time to $70,000 for up to seven climbers and an additional $10,000 for each additional climber."(261)]]> 2020-01-20 07:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433548036 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433549192 Now even after all the rules and restrictions Rob Hall had upon his group the most important was "In our case it would probably be 1:00pm, or 2:00 at the very latest and abiding by it no matter how close we are to the top."(153) even after Rob Hall gives the instructions almost every single one of Rob Hall and Scott Fischers group carelessly did not abide in it and payed the price for it... death.]]> 2020-01-20 07:37:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433549192 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433550401 On May 19th Jon Krakauer returned home to Seattle where he could live peacefully. Jon says "The ordinary pleasures of life at home, eating breakfeast with my wife, watching the sun go down over the Puget Sound, being able to get up in the middle of the night and walk barefoot to a warm bathroom."(282)]]> 2020-01-20 07:43:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433550401 lewisrya004 https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433551348 With the publish of Jon's experience on Mount Everest including the people on the climb he recieved several complaints about the published article to "Outside" he sent. In return he writes "I sincerely regret this I did not set out to harm anyone.(302) Jon was not looking to go after any of his colleagues but just to share the danger of Everest.]]> 2020-01-20 07:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lewisrya004/8j20ryxfoe21/wish/433551348