Sofia Garcia
Villegas-4
English 2
In the book Into Thin Air Krakauer talks about the harsh conditions their bodies were facing while on their Mount Everest expedition. He uses the quote ¨By morning my eyes were burning and bloodshot, my nostrils were clogged with black soot, and I´d developed a dry, persistent hack that would stay with me until the end of the expedition¨ (Krakauer 54). This quote is relate able to me because one time I went camping with my whole family over night when I was younger I had gotten very sick and it was the most miserable thing i had every experienced. I needed rest and medicine but there was not any that my parental guardians had brought along this family bonding trip. As the outdoor camping trip went on i began to get even more sick and being in the outdoors did not make it better. Being in the outdoors and not having anything to make me feel normal again and not sick was a terrible feeling and you feel very helpless and tired. When you are placed in a situation in that type of environmental place all you want to do is go home and take a bath and sleep for hours. I can not imagine being that ill and on top of the biggest mountain ever. Being sick is not fun, especially when you’re in an unusual environment, and that environment was the cause of you getting sick. The way Krakauer was explaining his health in that condition was just as bad as the environment condition and he wasn’t even to the top yet so he still had a way to go and couldn’t turn back just because he was getting sick. Unlike me my family decided to go home as soon as i began to get worse.
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