Dear Students:

• Watch the video below

GOING UP

• Now Read the follow text

GOING DOWN

In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed to the top of Mount Everest. The next challenge was to climb it without bottled oxygen. This was the goal of Austrian climbers Peter Habeler and Reinhold Messner. Doctors said they were crazy and told them not to try it. They tried it anyway. On 8 May 1978, they were about 800 metres from the top of Everest. They woke at 3 a.m. and began preparing. It took them two hours to get dressed. Every breath was precious and they used their hands to communicate. Climbing was slow. Messner thought he was going to burst like a ballon. At 8.800 metres, they stopped and lay down every few steps because of the lack of oxygen. But between one and two in the afternoon they achieved their "impossible" goal. They reached the top of Mount Everest without oxygen.  

• Look at carefully these sentences:

Habeler and Messner are stronger and fitter than most people

Free-diving is more dangerous than you think.

• DISCUSS

How would you feel about diving a long way under the sea and climbing a mountain like Mount Everest?