David


 * //__ INTO THIN AIR __//****//__ BY JON KRAKAUER __//**

Journalist, Jon Krakauer, gets sent to Nepal to climb Everest. He gives a brief history about Mount Everest and then starts talking about the hike. His group is at Base Camp and rests throughout the next week. The next week they acclimatize so they don't come down with a sickness from climbing to quickly. They get to Camp Four and wake up early the next morning to head for the summit. At 2 P.M 're supposed to turn around but don't. Dark storm clouds roll in and the groups are trapped with lives on the line. Who will survive?





What are some challnges or conflicts you encounter when attempting to solve a problem?

Being safe- After the storm hit people were trapped at different places and people were hurt and didn't know where they were. The people who had made it back to Camp Four from the summit safe but were scared to go out and look for the other people because the wind was still very strong. They also didn't want to get lost and/or hurt.

I used fix-up strategies. One example is when I was reading, Jon was talking about climbing the ice falls and how they were dangerous and slippery so they used these things called crampons. I didn't know what crampons were so I looked it up in the dictionary. They are metal plates with spikes that are fixed to a boot for walking on ice or rock climbing. This helped me understand what he was talking about.