The Trip of a lifetime

In the car, Hank kept singing country songs at the top of his lungs.“Turn the radio to a Rock station!” I yelled at him. “Should we stop at the gas station and fill up or should we go to the next gas station ,” asked Hank. “We should go now and I also need to go to the bathroom,” I said. When we were at the gas station we ran into our friend’s Beefy and Frank.Beefy asked, “Where are you going?”“To Mt.Everest,” Hank said happily.Frank then asked, “Can we come along.”I said, “Yeah sure, meet us there.”After I got out of the store Hank yelled at me, “Lets get going,” Hank said” Now we just have a two hour drive to Everest.”

As we were driving along some old country road we saw a couple of deer in the field, Hank told me to pull over to the side of the road because he wanted to look at them. I said, “Ok,  just let me find the fields driveway,” So we sat there for awhile and watched the deer I fell asleep for a bit and when I woke up,  hank was gone. So I went to look for him. You remember how I said he packed everything well I guess he brought his 12 gage with him. So I find him dragging this 134 pound buck back to the truck. “What do you think you're doing you buffoon we ain't got no room for that deer in the truck, plus I don't want the blood all over I just got this thing washed!” I told him. “I'll strap it to the trailer with the sleds,” Hank said proudly. This was the biggest deer he has ever shot, “So I said ok gust make sure you strap it down good so we don't lose it,”I said. hurry up Hank we got to get going remember we have to meet beefy and frank at Mt. Everest, I said hyperly.

Hank said, “Yeah yeah im almost done don't be getting mad just hold on. Im not getting mad but we just need to get going,” I said annoyed by his tone of voice. “Im sorry Jack, im just so happy and I don't want this deer to fall off,” Hank said.“Its ok lets get going we don't have much time till night fall,” I said. So off we went, we still had half an hour to go and only 40 minutes of day time left and we still had to set up tents at the base of the mountain.It was a about 8:30 when we got there we saw Beefy and Frank’s tents were already set up and we knew they were sleeping because we could hear snoring.

So we unloaded, set up our tents, and then went to bed.At about 2AM I woke up to loud music it was Jack he was sitting in the car and when I opened the door he yelled ”How do you like loud music.” then laughed. We were going to go back to bed but then we realized we were just going to wake up in 2hrs anyway so we stayed awake in the warm car, after  a whole hour of nothing passed we got out and made a fire, then we cooked some hotdogs for breakfast and woke up beefy and frank by honking the horn. now that they were awake they could eat and we could get going.

When we were about to leave Beefy and Frank both asked the same dumb question “ Why did you bring your snowmobiles,” I guess thats when Jack and I realized that we never told them that we were snowmobiling, we had only told them that we were going to Mt.Everest nothing else. So we just decided to let them ride on the back of our snowmobiles. By the end of the night nothing really cool had happened it didn’t start to snow until we were in our tents.when we were trying to make dinner the wind was so strong it blew our fire out so we had to just eat granola bars and jerky. “Jack!” Hank yelled, “What!” he replied, “Our tent its been blown away!” Hank said madly. So that night we slept in the truck comfortable so I got out and slept in the back but it got very cold so I snuck into Beefy and Franks tent and fell asleep in there.

The next day Beefy and Frank had to leave so they could go to work. After we had breakfast we packed our snowmobiles with deer jerky from the deer that hank shot, water and other supplies and headed of. as we were driving on the trails we felt the ground move and we stopped to see if we could find out what it was but we couldn't so we just kept going a little bit latter we felt it a gin as we got closer farther up. Next thing we knew the ground was moving out from underneath us. “It’s an avalanche,” cried Hank.“ I know,” I said not knowing what to do. “Lets drive down the mountain,” said Hank.

But it was too late we were swept away by the raging snow. I must have hit my head or something because when i woke up i was stuck down in some crevasse with hank on top of me. When I tried to move my legs hurt really bad and I was dizzy. I rolled hank off of me and grabbed the could rocky wall and stood up. I went to go look for mine and Hanks snowmobile and I got luck I found both of them. I grabbed the jerky and the water from them and the medical supply kit that I packed in mine. Then I headed back to get Hank he was still on conscious but I threw some water on him and he woke up. I gave him some jerky and the water and told him be smart and make that last we don't know how long we'll be stuck down here. Hank said, “yeah I know.” ok lets get going so we can get back to the sleds and see what else we can get that might be helpful. when we got to the sleds hank fell to his knees in disgust “Our sleds they are demolished,” Hank said. yeah I know I feel the same way but just be happy that we are still alive. Hank was digging in the sled pouch for a long time and he pulled a walkie talkie, some rope and a flint and steel out of it. “I thought I put this in here,” said hank. “Hey Hank, I found some climbing gear in my bag,” I said.  “Cool now we can try to get out of here lets just siphon some gas out of my snowmobile and put it in a water bottle so we can start a fire easier,” said Hank.

So we headed off to find a good place to start climbing. As we were walking through the crevasse Hank tripped and fell on his face and I started to laugh but it was pretty bad he broke his nose and I felt bad for laughing. So I went in to the medical kit and got some gauze and some tape to stop the bleeding. After that was over we kept going we came to a good spot to start the climb out we had to climb about 50 feet Hank grabbed the rope and I got the climbing gear we found a good rock to tie the rope to and Hank started to climb he got half way up and he slipped all the back down. So he tried again this time he made it then he picked up the rope and made a bundle.Thats when we started seeing planes flying by so we cut up the rope and made an S.O.S sign in the snow. Planes immediately started to soar right above us, then they were gone. All day we just sat there and nothing happened until we started hearing helicopters and rescue teams by the time they had gotten to us we already had frostbite and Hank had a broken nose, then they brought us to a hospital. When we got there they let us leave about 2hrs after to check for hypothermia and to fix his nose and the doctor said “Its not major frostbite so it will be gone soon,” so once we got home we just slept and we both agreed to always be prepared for whats to come.