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© 2019 british council www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish reading: c1 a biography of kilian jornet read a biography of mountain runner kilian jornet, who climbed everest in a day, to practise and improve your reading skills. before reading do the preparation task first. then read the text and do the exercises. preparation task match the definitions (a–h) with the vocabulary (1–8). vocabulary definitions 1. …… kidneys 2. …… endurance 3. …… to scale 4. …… breathless 5. …… a hike 6. …… a sherpa 7. …… an ascent 8. …… altitude a. to climb to the top of something b. a mountain guide from the himalaya mountains c. the height of a place above sea level d. a long, hard walk e. a climb up a mountain or other object f. the ability to do something difficult for a long time g. two organs in the body that process liquid waste h. not …

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les de cerdanya in catalonia, north-eastern spain. while other children his age were learning to walk, kilian was on skis. at one and a half years old he did a five-hour hike with his mother, © 2019 british council www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish entirely under his own steam. he left his peers even further behind when he climbed his first mountain and competed in his first cross-country ski race at age three. by age seven, he had scaled a 4,000er and, at ten, he did a 42-day crossing of the pyrenees. he was 13 when he says he started to take it ‘seriously’ and trained with the ski mountaineering technical centre (ctemc) in catalonia, entering competitions and working with a coach. at 18, he took over his own ski-mountaineering and trail-running training, with a schedule that only allows a couple of weeks of rest a year. he does as many as 1,140 hours …

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ly drinking 3.5 litres of water on a 100km run in temperatures of around 40°c. it would take a book to list all the races and awards he’s won and the mountains he’s climbed. and even here, kilian’s achievements exceed the average person as, somehow, he finds time to record his career on his blog and has written three books, run or die, the invisible border and summits of my life. tasks task 1 write the correct numbers to complete the sentences. 1. it’s normal to find it hard to breathe at …………………………… metres above sea level. 2. kilian reached the summit of everest in …………………………… hours on his second attempt. 3. he was …………………………… years old when he walked a long way without being carried. 4. at the age of …………………………… , he saw mountaineering as more than a hobby. 5. at age …………………………… , he became his own …

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nges would you like to train for? © 2019 british council www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish answers preparation task 1. g 2. f 3. a 4. h 5. d 6. b 7. e 8. c task 1 1. 3,500 | 3500 2. 17 | seventeen 3. 1.5 | one and a half 4. 13 | thirteen 5. 18 | eighteen 6. 33 | thirty-three task 2 1. d 2. b 3. a 4. c 5. a 6. d reading: c1 a biography of kilian jornet before reading preparation task reading text: a biography of kilian jornet tasks task 1 task 2 discussion answers preparation task task 1 task 2

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© 2019 british council www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish reading: c1 a biography of kilian jornet read a biography of mountain runner kilian jornet, who climbed everest in a day, to practise and improve your reading skills. before reading do the preparation task first. then read the text and do the exercises. preparation task match the definitions (a–h) with the vocabulary (1–8). vocabulary definitions 1. …… kidneys 2. …… endurance 3. …… to scale 4. …… breathless 5. …… a hike 6. …… a sherpa 7. …… an ascent 8. …… altitude a. to climb to the top of something b. a mountain guide from the himalaya mountains c. the height of a place above sea level d. a long, hard walk e. a …

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