7.1 Activity - Describing a place

- highest mountain in the world

- 8 849m tall

- in great Himalaya Mountain range

- people climb

- first Sri Lankan to climb-Jayanthi Kuru Uthumpala

- the first in the world to climb – Sir Edmund Hillary

- difficulties to climb it – climate is very cold, less oxygen in the air, long duration, risky to climb up with the snow.