In June 1985, two British mountaineers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates made the first-ever climb of the 21,000-foot snow-covered Siula Grande mountain in Peru. It was an exceptionally (26) job, but nothing compared to what was to (27) . Early in the process, Simpson (28) and broke his right knee. Yates could have (29) him but managed to find a way of (30) him down the mountains on a rope in a series of difficult drops. Then Simpson fell into a crevasse and Yates eventually had no (31) but to cut the (32) , completely convinced that his friend was now (33)
In his book on the (34) , Joe Simpson wrote:
(35) I looked at the distant moraines, I know that I must at least try I would probably (36) there among those rocks. If I died, well, that wasn’t so (37) , but I wouldn’t have (38) waited for it to happen. The (39) of dying no longer affecte
A. throwing
B. turning
C. lowering
D. setting
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