It’s Tough at the top.ppt

It’s Tough at the top Mount Qomalangma Qomolangma (Everest), the main peak of the Himalayas, is the highest peak in the earth. At an altitude of 8848 meters, it is located at 86.9oE and 27.9oN. Right on the east section of the Sino-Nepal border, with the north slope in Tingri County of the Tibet Autonomous Region, the peoples Republic of China, and the south slope in the Kingdom of Nepal. In Tibetan Language, Qomolangma means Goddess the Third In the Map of China compiled and illustrated in 1717, the 56th year of the rule of Emperor Kang Xi in Qing Dynasty, Qomolangma was called Zhumulangma‘alin (transliteration） Qomalangma /Everest（珠穆朗玛峰）is the highest mountain on Earth （as measured from sea level）。 Snow-capped mountains， azure sky， golden rays of sunshine， the pure and mysterious aura of Tibet has excited the imagination of so many people of the world. Qomolangma, shaped like a gigantic Pyramid and full of power and grandeur, towers into the sky while the land features are extremely precipitous and the environment usually complicated. The snow line of the north slope is 5800 - 6200 meters and that of the south 5500 - 6100 meters. Three great cliffs, which are generally named the North Cliff, the East Cliff and the Southwest Cliff, are embraced by the Northeast Ridge, the Southeast Ridge and the West Ridge. The Family, Way Down the Mountain  -- NYT Wearing a gabardine suit and hobnail boots, George Mallory climbed for the top of Everest in June 1924 but exhausted and frozen he fell in the darkness somewhere below the summit and was never seen alive again. 1924年6月，乔治?马洛里（George Mallory）身穿华达呢套装、脚穿带有平头钉的靴子，向珠穆朗玛峰的顶峰登去，但天寒地冻加之筋疲力尽，马洛里坠落到顶峰之下某暗处，再也没有活过来。 将于下个月上映的新拍纪录片《最狂野的梦想》（“The Wildest Dream”）记述了马洛里登珠峰的事件。在这部纪录片中，英国珠穆朗玛峰委员会将马洛里遇难的消息通过非官方电报告知其妻露丝（Ruth）。露丝住在遥远的剑桥郡。她等到第二天早上才叫醒了三个孩子，告诉他们，长期不在他们身边的父亲死了。 According to “The Wildest Dream,” a new documentary about Mallory to be released next month, the news was delivered in an officious telegram fro