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BBC Learning English 

Video Words in the News  

29  M ay   2013 

Oldest Everest climber 

Transcript: 

A journey to the roof of the world. 

An 80 - year- old Japanese  mountaineer, Yuichiro Miura, has become the oldest 

man to reach the  summit of Everest. 

The octogenarian has climbed the mountain twice before.  

But Mr Miura's record could be short -lived; an 81- year- old Nepalese climber is 

preparing to make his ascent this week. 

Vocabulary: 

mountaineer   

someone who climbs mountains   

summit 

the highest point of a mountain  

octogenarian 

someone who is between 80 and 89 years old 

short -lived    

lasting a  sho rt  time   

ascent 

the act of climbing or moving upwards 

Exercise: 

Use one of the words or phrases below to complete e ach of these sentences from 

news report s.   

Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence 

correctly.  

mountaineer / summit / octogenarian / ascent  / short -lived    

1.  As Wall Street's record breaking run continues, some analysts wonder if it 

will be __________.  

2.  The route, starting and ending at Brockhole Visitor Centre on the shores of 

Windermere, includes six mountain passes, with 14,000 ft (4,267m) of 

________ and descent, and passes five lakes.  

3.  When the French climber Maurice Herzog conquered the Himalayan 

mountain, Annapurna, in 1950 he and fellow  ________ Louis Lachenal 

became the first men to reach a mountain peak more than 8,000m (26,247 

ft) high. 

4.  An _________  monarch -  who has had time off sick but who aides insist is 

fit and well  -  with her eldest son and heir who she will have to rely on more 

and more as she gets older. 

5.  Me, Colton and our friend Ian, decided we wanted to reach the  ______  of 

the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States  -  Mount Whitney.  

Answers: 

1.  As Wall Street's record breaking run continues, some analysts wonder if it will 

be short -lived . 

2.  The route, starting and ending at Brockhole Visitor Centre on the shores of 

Windermere, includes six mountain passes, with 14,000 ft (4,267m) of 

ascent and descent, and passes five lakes.  

3.  When the French climber Maurice  Herzog  conquered the Himalayan 

mountain, Annapurna, in 1950 he and fellow mountaineer Louis Lachenal 

became the first men to reach a mountain peak more than 8,000m 

(26,247 ft) high. 

4.  An octogenarian monarch - who has had time off sick but who aides insist is 

fit and well  - with her eldest son and heir who she will have to rely on more 

and more as she gets older.  

5.  Me, Colton and our friend Ian, decided we wanted to reach the  summit of the 

tallest mountain in the contiguous United States  - Mount Whitney.