Climb Every Mountain

CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN

Before Starting with the lesson, let's have a look at the person about whom we will talk:

Mr. Mark Inglis

Mark Joseph Inglis, ONZM (born 27 September 1958) is a mountaineer, researcher, winemaker and motivational speaker. He holds a degree in Human Biochemistry from Lincoln University, New Zealand, and has conducted research on Leukaemia. He is also an accomplished cyclist and, as a double leg amputee, won a silver medal in the 1 km time trial event at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games.

In addition to being a goodwill ambassador for the Everest Rescue Trust, Inglis has created a New Zealand based charitable trustLimbs4All. He has also created a range of sports drinks and energy gels named PeakFuel. He is heavily criticized for passing a distressed David Sharp without offering any assistance. Sharp was in a grave condition and eventually died.

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People often ask Mark Inglis if he can be any height he wishes. In reply he says, “Yes, I am very short when I am climbing mountains and tall otherwise.’’ At any given time, though, this cheerful Kiwi is two centimetres shorter then he used to be till that perilous November 1982. A heavy blizzard at New Zealand’s Mt. cook, where he was a 23-years-old search a rescue mountaineer, relegated Inglis to an ice cave for 13 days. Following his rescue, a major media event, both his legs had to be amputated knee-down because of severe frostbite.

Explanation

He says that he has grown up physically to a certain height but he is still tiny against the life. In an accident happened while climbing up a mountain, his lower part of the legs was dead and that made him 2 cm small. Inglis was working in an rescue department and in a blizzard he was trapped inside the storm for 13 days where he lost his knee down portion (In very low temperature human body starts to rot, that is the reason why people wear warm clothes in colder atmosphere.)

Glossary

1) Perilous - fraught with danger.

2) Kiwi - A resident of New Zealand.

3) Blizzard - A storm with heavy wind and snow.

4) Amputated - To remove with surgery.

Paragraph II

Today, almost 30 years later, as the first double amputee to have reached the summit of MT. Everest, the second double amputee to scale MT. Cho Oyu and perhaps the only double to were three-quarter pants all the time, this 51-year-old mountaineer has a lot to tell people about life. “I don’t tell them I am disabled. Disability is a state of mind. I say I’m double amputee, ’’says the jolly kiwi, who is in the city to deliver a series of motivational lectures to corporates, schools and whosoever is willing to borrow inspiration from his survival story.

Explanation

Now the story comes 30 years ahead... He was the first handicapped person to reach MT. Everest and the second to climb MT. Cho Oyu. He used to wear 3/4th pants all day long and even during his climbs. He has great integrity of positive mentality in him. He should not take his disabilities as his bad luck.. he use to greet his luck by good attributes. He was appointed as a motivational guide later...

Glossary

1) Double Amputee - Someone who has a limb removed by surgery.

2) Perhaps - May be

3) Disabled - Not able to perform an activity.

4) Motivate - To Inspire.

5) Jolly - Happy.

Paragraph III

Seated at the Taj lobby – where he feels people are showing a cultured nonchalance towards this strange foreigner in three-quarter pants who keeps adjusting his prosthetics legs – Inglis beams when he recalls how it all begin with rugby. ‘’I was really bad at rugby in school, and in 1970s New Zealand if you were bad at the game, what else could you do but climb?’’ he laughs. Initiated into mountaineering by his teacher, Bert, he soon became a professional search and rescue mountaineer, who, like every other adventure-seeker in his country, saw MT. Everest as a stepping stone to success. But that dream had to wait for 25 years, thanks to the terrible blizzard of 1982.

Explanation

People used to ignore Inglis due to his disabilities but it use to inspire them when he used to talk about his journey towards being a mountaineer. Inglis was interested in Rugby but he played it at the worst level. Then he decided to find his thrill in Climbing. He took guidance from Bert, his teacher, and became a rescue mountaineer... He had a close call towards MT. Everest but he had to wait for 25 years due to his leg injury...

Inglis Climbing a mountain.

Glossary

1) Lobby - Reception room area.

2) Nonchalance - Not bothering, to ignore.

3) Prosthetic - Replaced part of body.

4) Rugby - A game.

Paragraph IV

Inglis was stuck in an ice cave with fellow mountaineer Philip Doole – with five cookies between them, the duo survived on half a biscuit a day for the first five days. ‘’At minus 20 degrees in that altitudes, the human body tends to burn as many calories as a racing cyclist, ‘’says Inglis, whose wait dropped from 70kg to 39kg. ‘’The maximum someone has lasted in our situated was nine days. We spent most of our time praying for relief. ‘’It came on the seventh day in the form of the helicopter which dropped food, sleeping bags, a primus and a radio. On the thirteenth day, they were rescued. ‘’But the worst was seeing my legs rot later, ‘’ Inglis says.

Explanation

Lets get back to his past... he was stuck in the blizzard with his companion. They had five cookies and they spent a day on one cookie. This action saved them for five days. At lower temperature human calories burns spontaneously in a rapid way... the same was happening with Inglis and Philip on that day... he approx. loosed half of his weight. He says that the maximum anyone in his history could live long for 9 days in those conditions. All they left on almighty. They observed a chopper sound on the seventh day. That sound was ear pleasing.. They were provided food and other necessity and later they were rescued but the conditions got worst when he say his legs decaying due to the bacterias.

Glossary

1) Fellow - Friend, A guy, Companion.

2) Duo - Both.

3) tend - turn.

4) Cyclist - Cycle Rider.

5) Primus - Stove, Instrument to cook food.

6) Rot - To decay.

Paragraph V

Showing rare courage, the mountaineer tried to get back his passion. But after the initial painful attempt and the resulting frustration, he decided to take a break from the mountains and turned to academics. A degree in human biochemistry was followed by a ten-year career in wine- making. Meanwhile, he also dabbled in skiing and cycling, which culminated in a silver medal in the Sydney 2000 Paralympic games. ‘’Every day, I learnt to walk better, ‘’ says Inglis, who renewed his tryst with the Rocky Mountains in 2002. He first scale MT. Cook with his prosthetic legs and later, in 2004, successfully reached the summit of Cho Oyu, which is only 649 metres lower than Everest. ‘’It was very hard but I felt confident of going on Everest now, ‘’ says Inglis, who set out of the mission in 2006. ‘’there were people around me with legs who were cribbing about how hard it was. And I would look at them and think, ‘Boy, you really don’t know how hard’. ‘’

Explanation

The brave hearted Inglis yet again decided to get up on his passion but was unable. Later on, he decided to join academics.. he studied Biochemistry in humans, 10 year career in wine-making and by the time Mr. Inglis used to even go for skiing and cycling, and he has even won Silver Medal in Sydney 2000 Paralympic game which is organised for handicappeds. He got tough day by day and learned with the circumstances. He again stood up for his passion in 2002 and from then he never looked back.. He targeted MT. Cook and then even reached to MT. Cho Oyu which is just 649 m short then that of Everest. It was hard for him for the time being but now he feels confident for climbing up at any peek. He used to be with the associates while climbing up the mountain and he had to be with them in terms of speed. It was really tough job to do so.. but the hard work paid him with interest.

Glossary

1) Frustration - Disappointment.

2) Culminated - To reach final destination.

3) Tryst - A meeting with loved one.

4) Prosthetic - Artificial body part.

Paragraph VI

Inglis had to climb at the same speed as others (‘’otherwise I would die’’) and even broke one of his stumps midway but ‘’the best part of having legs like mine is that you can fix them on the spot’’, he smiles. He takes three times longer to recover after an expedition, but all his experience are converted into bullet points for his motivational talks across the world, where he uses mountaineering as a metaphor for life. His lectures usually begins with a photo of him scaling MT. Everest. ‘’What do you see?’’ he ask his audience. ‘’A double amputee climbing MT. Everest? What I see is a man whose legs won’t be affected by frost-bitten feet again.’’

Explanation

Inglis has to climb in the same speed at that of his associates otherwise he would leave behind and may die. His companions used to wait at a place to make there feet warm again and the best part of Inglis legs were that he could replace it our manage it anywhere and start up his journey again. He takes 3 times longer from other to go for the next climb... He has been considered as the motivational guide across the worlds considering his hard work and passion for his job. In his every speech he used terms relating to mountaineering. He begins with his snap of climbing Everest and expresses positiveness in his phrases by " I see is a man whose legs won’t be affected by frost-bitten feet again.’’

Glossary

1) Expedition - Group of people going for a journey.

2) Metaphor (figure of speech) - To relate in similar terms.

3) Frost Bitten - A part destroyed due to ice.

Paragraph VII

Inglis, who now goes on two treks to the North Pole every year, enjoy mountains hiking. Despite becoming a spectacle for the mountain people, he does not like his prosthetic legs inside full pants. There’s a deeper reason for that. ‘’I’d rather be seen pulling my pants up to adjust my legs than pulling them down."

Explanation

He has boosted up himself with confidence and now he goes for hiking in Northern part ever year. He do not compress himself by highlighting his disabilities. His afore statements explains his positive attitude towards things... he means that he does not wants to fall down to up-pant, he wants people to low there eyes in front of him... He is an great example of Positivity.