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My Everest Project Research Paper
Scout Streit
Mrs. Winslow
Advanced Reading
May 10, 2013
My Everest Project For my project I decided to do a comic book. On page one I have pictures of the late Scott Fischer and other climbers who have passed away. Sherpa’s and climbers leave the bodies on the mountain in respect for the climbers and what they loved so dearly. It is interesting though, that when Sherpa’s die, little attention is given, but when a climber who is a paying client dies it is a catastrophe. Many of the bodies on Everest have been there for a long time and now are seemingly frozen in time. During Mark’s climbing experience he encounters a body that has been there since the 1980s. On page two I have pictures of the Khumbu Icefall. The Khumbu Icefall is a large

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