Personal Narrative: Beck Weathers

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 kind of harsh conditions of not only the mountain and the blizzard,

the chances of anyone staying there in the open for a night and survive is almost zero. Also, after the expedition, Beck lost the use of his hands, scared his face badly but