MOUNT EVEREST IS THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD.IT...

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Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world.It is in the Hymalayan

Mountains between Nepal and China, and it is 8,900 meters high.Sir Edmund Hillary from

New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal were the first people ever to climb Mount

Everest.They climbed it in 1953.Men from several different countries climbed it after that.

Junko Tabei, a Japanese from Hokkaido, was the first woman to make this difficult

cilmb.A Tokyo newspaper- television company organised the Mount Everest climb in

1975.They chose fifteen women from mountaineering clubs to go to Nepal.The group

climbed for several days.Then there was an avalanche.The heavy ice and snow injured ten of

the women.They had to stop climbing.The other five continued.

Only Ms.Tabei was able to climb the last 70 meters.She was standing on the top of the

world.She was the first woman there.

Ms.Tabei was 35 years old at the time.She started climbing mountains in 1960.She still

climbs mountains.She is not an ordinary Japanese housewife.Her husband works for Honda

Company.He likes to climbs mountains, too.But he can’t have enough vocation from his

work to go with his wife all time.So he stays home to take care of the house and children.

Ms.Tabei earns money for her trips by teaching English and piano to children.She also

speaks to groups of people about her mountain climbing.She climbs a mountain about every

three years.She climbed the highest mountains on six continents.Finally, she wants to climb

the highest mountains in every country in the world.When she reaches the top of a mountain,

she thinks , “ I’m glad that I’m at the top”.Then she climbs back down.