The key answer of exercise 5
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
Work with the same group. Discuss the questions, based on your knowledge of the world, what you understand from the text and your opinions.
Answer
- The British saw him as dangerous. Nepal isn’t mentioned, but as part of the British Empire the authorities there probably had pressure from the UK to stop him entering. Tibet was an independent but isolated country which may have been pressured by the British government.
- It was not very common to fly far in those days, and planes were dangerous and unreliable. He had no support.
- He had never been a climber before (see first part of the text).
- He was starving because he didn't have enough supplies / food (inexperience); half-blind because of the snow and not having right equipment (inexperienced); his arm had been badly injured in the war (could only partially use it).
- They probably left him – maybe they thought he was mad / they had done their best to persuade him / wanted to save themselves.
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