Why I chose this Topic

     I decided to choose this topic for a few reasons.  First of all, I am starting to get into this sort of stuff.  It just really interests me how some people are crazy enough to do some of this.  Second of all, I really enjoy Jon Krakauer.  He is a great author.  Last semester in American Lit., I read "Into the Wild."  I was going to just read that again, but it didn't meet the page number requirement.  I really enjoyed reading that and I thought if this was anything like it, then I would love it.  So, I decided I would try it out.  It turns out that I really liked the book.  The book also explains a lot about the first climbers of Mount Everest so I thought I would use that to my advantage and talk about the most significant climbs of the mountain.

-Trevor S.