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    Pre-Intermediate Student's Book: The Right Decision?

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    Two experienced climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, attempted to climb a dangerous mountain in Peru. During their descent, Simpson fell and broke his leg. Yates tied them together with rope and spent hours lowering Simpson down the mountain. However, Simpson then fell over a cliff and was left hanging in mid-air. Yates had to decide whether to cut the rope and save himself or hold on and risk both of their lives. He cut the rope, and Simpson fell into a crevasse but miraculously survived. After three days of crawling, Simpson made it back to base camp where Yates found him barely alive.

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    Two experienced climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, attempted to climb a dangerous mountain in Peru. During their descent, Simpson fell and broke his leg. Yates tied them together with rope and spent hours lowering Simpson down the mountain. However, Simpson then fell over a cliff and was left hanging in mid-air. Yates had to decide whether to cut the rope and save himself or hold on and risk both of their lives. He cut the rope, and Simpson fell into a crevasse but miraculously survived. After three days of crawling, Simpson made it back to base camp where Yates found him barely alive.

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    Two experienced climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, attempted to climb a dangerous mountain in Peru. During their descent, Simpson fell and broke his leg. Yates tied them together with rope and spent hours lowering Simpson down the mountain. However, Simpson then fell over a cliff and was left hanging in mid-air. Yates had to decide whether to cut the rope and save himself or hold on and risk both of their lives. He cut the rope, and Simpson fell into a crevasse but miraculously survived. After three days of crawling, Simpson made it back to base camp where Yates found him barely alive.

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    Pre-Intermediate Student's Book: The Right Decision?

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    Two experienced climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, attempted to climb a dangerous mountain in Peru. During their descent, Simpson fell and broke his leg. Yates tied them together with rope and spent hours lowering Simpson down the mountain. However, Simpson then fell over a cliff and was left hanging in mid-air. Yates had to decide whether to cut the rope and save himself or hold on and risk both of their lives. He cut the rope, and Simpson fell into a crevasse but miraculously survived. After three days of crawling, Simpson made it back to base camp where Yates found him barely alive.

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    The right decision?


    In May 1985 two climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, left their base camp by a
    lake and started climbing the north face of a mountain called Siula Grande in the
    Peruvian Andes. This climb was incredibly dangerous but the two men were
    experienced climbers and physically fit. On Day 1, the weather was good and the
    climb began well. At night they made a snow cave and slept on the side of the
    mountain. Three days later, after some very difficult climbing and bad weather, the
    two men stood at the summit. Unfortunately, the weather was getting worse so they
    didn’t stay long. As they were going down a mountain ridge, a disaster happened.
    Simpson fell and broke his knee. Quickly, Yates tied a rope to himself and then to
    his friend. He began lowering Simpson down the mountain and, for hours and
    hours, Yates helped Simpson get down the mountain. They were getting close to
    the glacier at the bottom of the mountain but suddenly Simpson slipped. This time
    he went over the edge of a cliff. He was hanging in mid-air. Simpson shouted up to
    Yates, but the wind was blowing loudly and Yates couldn’t hear him.

    Yates didn’t know what was happening below. He waited for an hour but the rope
    was too heavy and it was pulling Yates down the mountain towards the cliff. He
    had two choices: hold the rope but then both of them might die, or cut the rope and
    survive. It was an impossible decision for Yates but, at the last second, Yates cut
    the rope and saved himself. Immediately, Simpson fell thirty metres into a crevasse.
    The next day, while Yates was desperately looking for Simpson, he found the
    crevasse. He called for Simpson but he heard nothing. Sadly, he decided that
    Simpson was dead. Yates didn’t know it but Simpson was – unbelievably – still
    alive inside the crevasse. Simpson waited for hours but when he realised Yates
    wasn’t coming, he decided to take a risk. He had some rope so he abseiled to the
    bottom of the crevasse. He managed to find a way out. For three days, Simpson
    drank water from the snow and ice. He crawled back towards the base camp and at
    four o’clock in the afternoon of Day 7, Simpson was very near.
    Life In the middle of that night, Yates was sleeping in his tent at base
    camp when he woke up. He was sure someone was shouting his
    name. Excitedly, he ran outside and looked around. Finally, after
    searching and searching he found Simpson. He was lying on the ground, not
    moving, but he was still breathing. After a few days, the two men returned home
    and their story became famous. Unfairly, some climbers criticised Yates for cutting
    the rope. But, in 1988, Simpson wrote a book about the events and defended Yates.
    Simpson believed Yates made the right decision.

    edge (n) /edʒ/ the place where something stops


    abseil (v) /ˈaebseɪl/ to lower yourself down a mountain on a rope
    crawl (v) /krɔ:l/ to move on your hands and knees

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