Throughout my four years of high school, I have had to make significant sacrifices. During my freshman year of high school I joined the girl’s soccer team, but I also joined a program that involved getting a hands on experience with my future career. That being said, I had to sacrifice soccer in order to be more available with the program and attend the usual meeting that were being held weekly. The sacrifices I had to make in high school were significant to me because I changed the direction of my focus towards something that would benefit me in the future. An example of a Sherpa who made a sacrifice of his own was Rob Hall, from the article “Into Thin Air,” Hall willingly chose to climb Mount Everest with “Hall’s wife, seven months pregnant with their first …show more content…
You can see as Krakauer faces the difficulty of being an active and successful member of society when he makes “the mistake of mentioning that Groom was on his way down, too. In a day of many mistakes, this would turn out to be a crucial one,” (224). Krakauer mistakenly left a fellow climber, with his vision getting worse, on the mountain. This became a struggle for Krakauer because he could have made the decision of speaking up and letting him know that it would take a long time for Groom to make his way down towards him and for him to then carry the weight of both of them as he short-roped him. As a young adult, I have been self-reliant in the choices I made by letting myself be guided towards the correct path. I was influenced by many advisors in the program I was involved in; being involved, I learned based off what they taught me and it allowed for my confidence to boost up. Being self-reliant led me to become a leader within the program, shortly, I led many individuals along the path I once walked and helped them along the