Cover of the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 11 - Challenges and achievements for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Read the first three paragraphs of the article and answer the questions in Exercise 2.

Answer

  1. near the summit of Everest
  2. People are queuing to get to the top. 
  3. high altitude / lack of oxygen / low temperatures / high winds / a lot of ‘amateur’ climbers who can’t cope with the conditions, especially if things go wrong