Sir Ranulph Fiennes climbs Everest – exercise

There is a rather loud start to this video, and be aware that you might sometimes find you have triggered the next news video, which you will need to close, unless you want to watch it! You would probably have to click on ‘close all tabs’.

After listening to and watching this account, can you write the endings of these statements about this assault on Everest? You will be writing about 50 words.

1 Climbing Everest is described as……
2 Sir Fiennes is described as ….
3 In terms of his age is the explorer described as ………..
4 This video was made just after the explorer had ………
5 He’s the oldest ………………
6 It’s a case of …..
7 He had to end his first attempt in 2005 ……
8 He abandoned his second attempt in 2008 ……
9 It’s thought he kept this attempt …………….
10 Sir Ranulph hopes to ……………...

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