f Erik Weihenmayer Introduction Did you know that Erik Weihenmayer can climb the tallest mountains in the world while he’s completely blind? Erik Weihenmayer was born September 23‚ 1968‚ born with a rare eye disease called “retinoschisis(ret·i·nos·chi·sis)” although he was blind‚ he still wouldn’t accept the fact that he would be swept off his feet‚ and be miserable for the rest of his life. When he was a teen he got his motivation to go rock climbing. Years later‚ he started climbing many
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INTRODUCTION: The Ring of fire (figure 1) is a horse shoe shaped fault line. This fault line is prone to Earth quakes and volcanic eruptions. The ring of fire Is home to 452 volcanoes and 75% of the worlds dormant and active volcanoes live on the Ring. PLATE TECTONICS Plate tectonics is a theory that the earth is split up in to different areas of the world. They glide on the mantle of the earth the plates act like a hard ridged shell (fig 2 plate tectonics) Some of the plate tectonics move very
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Every day‚ millions and millions of people around the world decide to go on vacation‚ and travel somewhere they have never been to before. Whether it is one of the many sunny beaches of Hawaii‚ the gothic buildings of Europe‚ or the bright nightclubs of New York City‚ people choose to experience the excitement of being in a place foreign to them. Nevertheless‚ one place that will guarantee your family a lifetime’s worth of fun and adventure is the state of Alaska: a place filled with vast national
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Vesuvius and St. Helens are volcanoes‚ they both erupted . Nonetheless‚ these volcanoes did damage to land and loss of life. Some people even lived by these volcanos‚ it may awesome to live by a volcano‚ or it may be terrifying. Nonetheless‚ if you were to live by a volcano while it was erupting‚ the event would be terrifying from the tremors of a volcano‚ moreover‚ many years ago St. Helens erupted‚ the tremors were horrific‚ people who lived by this volcano were terrified they probably had to
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My dad had always told me stories about going to Baxter State park. How good the fishing is and all the wildlife that is there. He has been there a few times and he’s climbed Mt. Katahdin before. He knows where all the ponds and rivers like they are in his back pocket. After listening to all of my dad’s experiences of Baxter‚ I was just itching to go. It was the end of June and I finally got my chance to go to Baxter State Park. My dad and I have been preparing for this trip since February and this
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Nepal is a Sovereign nation situated in South Asia‚ Sandwiched by two very big nations India and China. it is a country of wonder despite the fact it is very small in size; it covers only 0.003% of the world. Being so very small in size‚ it covers a wide range of verifies in terms of ethnicity‚ culture‚ language‚ fashion‚ atmosphere‚ landscape‚ animals‚ birds and many more. it is also the birth place of Lord Buddha‚ Lumbini and the highest peak of the world Mt. Everest along with other many snowy
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Book Arrangement: The Kid who Climbs Everest opens to a short “Thank You” page dedicated to three crucial characters in Bear Grylls life: Pasang‚ Nima‚ and Shara. Following this dedication is the table of contents‚ here the reader can easily maneuver their way through the book. The table of contents is succeeded by a map of Everest‚ this map allows the reader to visualize the voyage they are set to embark on. After the map is a forward where Rev. Cooper gives backstory on the great mountain; an
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The Lava Pit One time in Hawaii‚ in 1888‚ there was a small village just next to a little beach. Not far from the village‚ there was a huge “lava pit.” Scientists believed that it was just a volcano that had formed underground and only the opening at the top could be seen from the surface. The lava pit had always been filled with lava‚ and people wondered if it would ever erupt. For many years‚ tourists have visited Hawaii and come to see and take pictures of the lava pit. Unfortunately‚ many people
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My idol would be Beck Weathers. He was the incredible person that managed to survive the 1996 Everest disaster. Beck went snow-blind in the Death-Zone of Everest and spent a night there out in the open during a blizzard that took away the lives of his nine colleagues. He had frostbites so extreme that it seems impossible for him to ever have survived‚ but with sheer will power he staggered his way back to camp. I belief Beck Weathers courage and tenacity deserves to be applaud. Under those
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Saint Agnes of Rome; born and bred in the most appalling and unmanageable century of Emperor Diocletian’s reign over Rome. Moreover‚ his ambition to abolish the beliefs and perceptions of Christianity. She was a notable martyr and a prominent dignitary to the Christian doctrine. Dismally‚ she died in 305 AD‚ at 13 years old‚ due to her righteous acts against Diocletian’s rule which later‚ led her and the Christian faith to virtue. Now‚ you may be thinking to yourself‚ “How is this saint any different
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