Mt. Everest Climber Had the Wrong Goal
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Mt. Everest Climber Had the Wrong Goal
In his best-selling book, Into Thin Air, John Krakauer tells the story of the ill-fated expedition to the summit of Mount Everest in 1996. In the book he mentions a member of the expedition named Yasuko Namba. Ms. Namba was a 46-year-old Japanese FedEx employee with a passion for climbing. She was an accomplished climber, having reached the summits of seven of the largest mountains ...
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- Abundant life
; - Achievement;
- Ambition;
- Call;
- Career;
- Contentment;
- Culture;
- Discontent;
- Emptiness;
- Eternal & Temporary;
- Fruitfulness;
- Fulfillment;
- Fullness;
- Goals;
- Identity in Christ;
- Lostness;
- Meaning;
- Meaning of life;
- Pride;
- Priorities;
- Purpose;
- Satisfaction;
- Self-deception;
- Self-image;
- Self-worth;
- Sin, consequences of;
- Sin, Destructive;
- Success;
- Unrest;
- Vocation
- Psalm 16:11
; - Psalm 20:4;
- Psalm 78:33;
- Proverbs 1:1-7;
- Proverbs 3:5-6;
- Proverbs 14:12;
- Proverbs 16:25;
- Proverbs 24:10;
- Ecclesiastes 1:1-15;
- Ecclesiastes 2:1-20;
- Isaiah 40:28-31;
- Isaiah 49:4;
- Isaiah 55:2;
- Matthew 6:19-21;
- Matthew 6:33;
- Matthew 19:27-30;
- Mark 10:29-31;
- Luke 12:16-21;
- Luke 12:31;
- Luke 14:28;
- Luke 18:28-30;
- John 6:27;
- John 10:10;
- 1 Corinthians 10:31;
- Galatians 4:11;
- Ephesians 4:17;
- Philippians 2:16
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