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Cloze Most young people enjoy physical activities, walking, cycling, football, or mountaineering. These who have a passion 61 climbing high and difficult mountains are often 62 with astonishment. Why are men and women 63 to suffer cold and hardship, and to 64 on high mountains? This astonishment is caused, probably, by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activities 65 which men give their leisure. There are no man-made rules, as there are for 66 games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of different kinds which it would be dangerous to 67 , but it is this freedom from man-made rules 68 makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own 69 . If we 70 mountaineering with other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is 71 mountaineering is not a team work. However, it is only our misunderstanding. There are, in fact, no matches 72 teams of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may 73 , obviously, there is teamwork. A mountain climber knows that he may have to fight with natural 74 that are stronger and more powerful than man. His sport requires high mental and 75 . qualities. A mountain climber 76 to improve on skill year after year. A skier is probably past his best by the age of thirty, and most international tennis champions 77 in their early twenties. But it is not 78 for men of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountain