Top Man essays

Top Man essays In the story Top Man; JR Ullman proves that Nace is the Top Man. He went on a dangerous journey on K3. He will to give his life to save another. Nace also have determination to go on to the mountain that took his friend. Can you image what the setting in this story must be like? Just think, mid 20th century, a huge mountain, K3, exceeding 28,000 feet, shutting out half of the sky. A mountain with no other mountain higher in British India, one of highest in the surrounding area. Sweeping glaciers running up the mountain, with enormous snowdrifts. What seems like 100 vertical cliffs, and one sharp and jagged spine. You could almost feel the soft snow and it hear the avalanches. It was cold enough to take off your nose. Then there is a grope of advancers with Osborn and Nace it was obvious of the tension between them. Nace and Osborn are the main characters that are racing to the top of K3. The internal conflict is who is the top man/the leader. K3 is the external conflict. The rising actions of the story starting when Osborn saw the mountain first, then argued if they should use their sleeping bags for the first night. Nace has also came within 500 feet of the peak of K3, but had to turn back. Another rising action is the location of the camps. Camp one and two are on a glacier, camp three is also on the upper end of the glacier, Camp four is 2,000 feet farther up the mountain from camp three, and camp six is 26,500 feet from the base of the mountain. A storm moves in and it pass over in three nights. There are two groups; the first group consists of 11 people Nace, Johns, eight porters and myself. The second group consists of ten people Osborn, Wittmer and eight porters. Osborn has been finding new shortcuts. Osborn left in the middle of the night by himself to try to make it to t he top. Nace and myself caught up to Osborn the next day, they found him stan ...