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BBC Learning English
Video Words in the News
29 M ay 2013
Oldest Everest climber
Transcript:
A journey to the roof of the world.
An 80 - year- old Japanese mountaineer, Yuichiro Miura, has become the oldest
man to reach the summit of Everest.
The octogenarian has climbed the mountain twice before.
But Mr Miura's record could be short -lived; an 81- year- old Nepalese climber is
preparing to make his ascent1 this week.
Vocabulary:
mountaineer
someone who climbs mountains
summit
the highest point of a mountain
octogenarian
someone who is between 80 and 89 years old
short -lived
lasting2 a sho rt time
ascent
the act of climbing or moving upwards
Exercise:
Use one of the words or phrases below to complete e ach of these sentences from
news report s.
Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence
correctly.
mountaineer / summit / octogenarian / ascent / short -lived
1. As Wall Street's record breaking run continues, some analysts3 wonder if it
will be __________.
2. The route, starting and ending at Brockhole Visitor Centre on the shores of
Windermere, includes six mountain passes, with 14,000 ft (4,267m) of
________ and descent, and passes five lakes.
3. When the French climber Maurice Herzog conquered the Himalayan
mountain, Annapurna, in 1950 he and fellow ________ Louis Lachenal
became the first men to reach a mountain peak more than 8,000m (26,247
ft) high.
4. An _________ monarch4 - who has had time off sick but who aides insist is
fit and well - with her eldest5 son and heir who she will have to rely on more
and more as she gets older.
5. Me, Colton and our friend Ian, decided6 we wanted to reach the ______ of
the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States - Mount Whitney.
Answers:
1. As Wall Street's record breaking run continues, some analysts wonder if it will
be short -lived .
2. The route, starting and ending at Brockhole Visitor Centre on the shores of
Windermere, includes six mountain passes, with 14,000 ft (4,267m) of
ascent and descent, and passes five lakes.
3. When the French climber Maurice Herzog conquered the Himalayan
mountain, Annapurna, in 1950 he and fellow mountaineer Louis Lachenal
became the first men to reach a mountain peak more than 8,000m
(26,247 ft) high.
4. An octogenarian monarch - who has had time off sick but who aides insist is
fit and well - with her eldest son and heir who she will have to rely on more
and more as she gets older.
5. Me, Colton and our friend Ian, decided we wanted to reach the summit of the
tallest mountain in the contiguous United States - Mount Whitney.
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