Tale of One 46er/Climbing Everest

Tale of One 46er/Climbing Everest

Multiple Choice

What is one important benefit of the 46ers and training to climb Everest?

• Both prevent boredom after retirement.

• Both provide a necessary life goal.

• Both inform people about risks.

• Both requires healthy life choicecs.

Multiple Choice

Read this sentence from "A Tale of One 46er"

I strapped my pack on my back - it had everything I would need for two days in the wilderness alone, a tent , plenty of water, and enough food to fuel my walk.

Which sentence from "Climbing Everest: No Easy Peak" is related to this idea?

• The goal is achieve a level of fitness that will allow the body to survive the higher up they go, where oxygen levels are lower.

• The goal is to be able to climb 3,500 feet in under 3 hours while wearing a 65-pound backpack.

• Climbers also must plan for several months of trainings in many possible dangerous scenarios one could encounter on Everest.

• Base camp is at 17,000 feet, considerably higher than most mountains on the east coast of the United States.

Multiple Choice

Both selections expore ideas that involve -

• preparing for physically and metlaly demanding experience

• different choices people make when their careers come to an end

• the potential dangers and ptifalls of making an extreme choice

• the ways in which one's life can be changed in an instant

Mount Everest