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Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. The next morning, Hillary's boots were frozen solid
It is named after George Everest, the first person to outside the tent! It took two hours to melt the
record its location and height. ice and get the boots warm. Hillary and Tenzing
The first people to climb to the top of Mount Everest climbed the last part of the mountain. They used
were Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. ice axes to pull themselves up the icy rocks. On
Tenzing was a mountain climber 29th May, they reached the summit. They stood on
from Nepal and Hillary was an the highest point on Earth. Then Hillary took some
explorer from New Zealand. photos and they buried some
They were part of a large chocolates in the snow for future
.,, " expedition including 362 porters climbers. They only stayed at
and 20 guides. the top of Everest for about
15 minutes, because it was
The expedition started in March 1953. It took
difficult to breathe. There isn't
the team many weeks to get close to the top of
much oxygen at 8,848m!
the mountain. Some of the climbers had to give
up when their equipment didn't work and they Since then, many people have
couldn't get enough oxygen, but Hillary and climbed Mount Everest. The
Tenzing continued the expedition. oldest person to reach the
summit was Yuichiro Miura, from
There was heavy snow and freezing winds, but
Japan. He was 80 years old. The
by 28th May, Hillary and Tenzing were near the
youngest person was Jordan
summit. They slept in a tent that night.
Romero, from the USA. He was 13.

3 Underline these words in the text. Guess their meanings and then check them in the
Workbook 4 Dictionary.

location height oxygen expedition summit equipment frozen melt

4 Read again and put the sentences in the correct order.
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a Hillory and Tenzing slept in a tent near the summit.

b A large expedition team started to climb Everest. o
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c Hillary and Tenzing buried chocolates in the snow.
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d Hillory and Tenzing climbed the last part of the mountain.

e Some of the climbers gave up . o

• • Unit 11 Words in context: Everest expeditions Reading: an article
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