Article: The mess at the top of the world
Summary:
In the beginning, when the author was climbing the Mt.Everest, he figured out something was wrong compared to several years ago. During the trudge, instead of sawing the beauty of snow mountain, he and his company Panuru saw many garages, most of them were oxygen can, climbing equipments, and also corpses. In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to reach the summit of the world and only 6 people reached the top, but in 2012 more than 500 mobbed the summit. Some businessman even treats this as a business. The importance of reaching the summit of Mt.Everest has been changed now.
Reflections:
This is really a sad story to me, as the technology improved daily, people did not stop to look back how serious our mother land “Earth” has become. Under the materialism, a lot of people are money supremacist; they only care about how to keep making more money. Just as in the story, more people go to climbMt. Everest for their vanity, and hurt the mountain deeply. I just watched a famous movie yesterday, “Beyond Beauty” (看見台灣). Before I watched it, I thought it was a documentary to describe how beautiful Taiwan is, but beside the beauty, the director also showed how ghastly this land became, I was really shocked, I was shamed of ourselves to treat this beautiful land in such a cruel way. This is a good movie to remind us what we have done. Maybe we can not do much to change the environment, but there are still some easy way to contribute, for example, turn off the light when we don’t need it, do recycle correctly, control the temperature of air-conditioner, the most important, do not buy the thing that was produced in a polluted process.
Movie trailer of "Beyond Beauty"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ5-RcVIizU
Vocabulary:
1. crampon (n.) 起重釣鉤；冰爪
2. insulate (v.) 隔離
3. mob (v.) 蜂擁而入
4. visceral (adj.) 內心深處的
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