Mount Everest: Into Thin Air

Mount Everest is one of the great wonders of the world and widely used for extreme mountain hiking.Only the most motivated and most fierce people can make it to the summit of Mount Everest.The infamous mountain is known as the tallest,greatest and a test to humankind,but is it getting too risky.On April 18,an avalanche caused a destructive lost of 16 lives.Thirteen bodies were recovered within two days and the next-of-kin were paid $10,000 insurance and and token sum from the Nepalese government.On April 22 the Nepalese guides,known as Sherpas made a choice to stop their guide operations on the mountain for the rest of 2014,bringing the climbing season to a stop. The Achievements and the motivation on Mount Everest should not stop on a simple
One of the major causes of death is HACE and HAPE,these disorders are more dangerous than and more likely than being crushed or blasted by any avalanches.“Now climbers are also routinely employ taking special steroids to prevent high altitude cerebral edema (HACE) and high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE),which are potentially fatal disorders”,(Source 1).This solves one of the major causes of death in Mount Everest.If the advances of methods and technology advance more the death ratio will be much more better then 1 to 4 or 1 to 60. The human spirit and inspiration is with this mountain and if it shuts down,most of our dreams will be lost.The safety of mountain climbing is growing because of oxygen tanks and special steriods.This should reduce the risk and harm of people climbing it.For the motivation and the people’s fierce souls we should still open the Mighty Mount Everest to the