Ways to Die on Everest

Avalanche

Avalanches can be a hundred feet deep of snow.  They can be so little as one foot high.  You can suffocate under snow because it is so deep.  Sometimes people can get rescued from avalanches.  Sometimes the avalanche pushes you down into a crack or crevasse.

Lack of Oxygen

The air can be so thin, between camp four and the summit, that you need an oxygen tank.  Sometimes if you don't have an oxygen tank, you need to breath quickly.  Sometimes you can die because there is barely any oxygen.  You can get dizzy and fall off the mountain. 

Altitude Sickness

You can get altitude sickness from climbing too high.  When you climb too high without getting used to the thin air, you can get water on your lungs or brain.  The water might fill up your lungs and you could barely breathe.  And then you would die.

Storms

There are lots of storms that can kill you on Everest.  The winds can blow an ice pinnacle onto you as you walk by.  The winds can blow you off a cliff.  The winds can blow the snow and create a white out.  A white out is where you can't see anything and you could walk off a cliff or into a crevasse.

Steps of project 

1.    I chose a book that I would do a project on because it was interesting.

2.    Then I chose a topic- Dying on Everest.

3.    I wrote down everything I knew about dying on Everest.

4.    Then I wrote down questions.

5.    Then I read 3 books about Everest to answer my questions.

6.    Then I watched 2 movies to answer some more of my questions.

7. And then I used all the information that I knew to make a web page.