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Mountain Explorers Name Mountain explorers Name: Thomas Johnson Names: Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard Mountain climbed: Snowdon Mountain climbed: Mont Blanc Date: 1639 Date: 1786 Details: Thomas Johnson was interested in Details: Prize money for climbing Mount the plants that grew on Snowdon. However, Blanc was offered in 1760, but it took 26 years while his is the fi rst recorded ascent of the before anyone actually claimed it. Jacques and mountain, an 18th century historian, Thomas Michel survived being trapped overnight on a Pennant, claimed he had evidence that Snowdon glacier and proved that a two-day ascent of the was climbed as early as 1284 – following Edward mountain was possible. I’s conquest. Name: Hans Meyer Names: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Mountain climbed: Mount Kilimanjaro Mountain climbed: Mount Everest Date: 1889 Date: 1953 Details: Hans Meyer is credited as the fi rst Details: By the time they reached the summit, European to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. At the their oxygen was running low and they could time, there were no paths either through the only spend 15 minutes there. When the two forest around the bottom of the mountain or exhausted men rejoined their team leader, higher up the slopes. The cold would also have Colonel John Hunt at Camp VI, he at fi rst been a problem as the summit was covered in assumed that they had failed to climb to the glaciers and snow (Kilima Njaro means “shining top. When they pointed to the summit mountain” in Swahili). A cave high up the and signalled that they had reached it, the mountain is named after Hans and is known to celebrations began. John put their success have been used as an overnight shelter during down to careful planning, open-circuit oxygen his ascent. Global warming is currently causing equipment and good weather. Edmund Hillary the distinctive white cap of Mount Kilimanjaro described Mount Everest as: “a symmetrical, to shrink. beautiful snow cone summit”. Name: Sir Chris Bonington Name: Alison Hargreaves 007 Mountain climbed: Led many fi rst British Mountain climbed: The fi rst British woman to ascents including Mont Blanc, the Eiger, and climb Mount Everest Himalayan climbs including Mount Everest Date: 1995 and Annapurna. Details: Alison Hargreaves was the fi rst person Date: Mainly during 1960s and 1970s to make solo ascents of six classic Alpine climbs Details: Chris Bonington received a knighthood in one season. She became the fi rst woman for his mountaineering achievements. Following – and second person ever – to climb Mount TER; MOUNTAINS © SCHOLASTIC LTD 2 the fi rst ascent of the Ogre in the Himalayas, Everest alone and without additional oxygen. one of his team members fell and had to crawl Three months after this, she successfully climbed through a blizzard with two broken legs. Chris the world’s second highest mountain, K2, but also fell and broke a rib. The team ran out died along with three other climbers during their of food and were given up for lost by their descent in a violent storm. OORDINATOR AND FREELANCE WRI companions, who then abandoned the team’s base camp. GILLIAN RAVENSCROFT, SCIENCE C PHOTOCOPIABLE 2 www.scholastic.co.uk/junioredplus NOVEMBER 2007 111342913429 JJE11_posterE11_poster 1 bbacks.inddacks.indd 2 225/09/20075/09/2007 008:17:188:17:18.
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