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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Names of characters
Facts from story
Facts from story
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part of the air needed to breathe
What is oxygen
100
deep crack in the ice
What is a crevasse?
100
Sherpa guide who was the first to climb Mount Everest
Who was Norgay?
100
one of the two countries where Mount Everest is located
What is Tibet or Nepal?
100
what Nepal has done to help keep Everest clean
What is a fine or a a fee?
200
top of the mountain
What is the summit
200
word that means sad
What is gloomy?
200
Person from New Zealand who was one of the first people to climb Mount Everest.
Who was Hillary?
200
the person who saved Hillary's life when he fell on a crevasse
Who is Norgay?
200
climbers use this to cross crevasses
What is a ladder?
300
side of a mountain
What is a slope
300
a person who helps a mountain climber
What is a guide?
300
One of the characters who tried to climb to the summit of Mount Everest but died before they got there.
Who is Mallory or Irvine?
300
mountain climbers need this to survive as they climb to high altitudes
What is an oxygen tank?
300
Something that Norgay and Hillary didn't have when they climbed Mount Everest in 1953, but they are now available to mountain climbers
What is a map?
400
snowstorm that gets out of control with snow falling down the mountain
What is an avalanche?
400
a person who accepts dangerous challenges
What is a hero?
400
what the guides from Nepal are called
What are Sherpas?
400
the time Hillary and Norgay spent at the summit of Mount Everest
What is 15 minutes?
400
Queen Elizabeth gave this to Norgay for reaching the top of Mount Everest
What is a medal?
500
word that means not safe
What is dangerous?
500
what we call a section of time
What is a period?
500
the man who thought he saw Mallory and Irvine at the top of Mount Everest
Who is Odell?
500
Queen Elizabeth made Hillary this to honor him for climbing Mount Everest
What is a knight?
500
what Hillary carried in New Zealand which helped him carry a lot of gear when he climbed Mount Everest
What is a beehive?