Integrating Web Resources into Teaching
Mount Everest
(Lung Teng Book 6 Lesson 1)
I. About the PowerPoint file:
This ppt file is divided into two parts. Part I
Everest Facts serves as the pre-reading
activity. Part II Like Fathers, Like Sons
serves as the post-reading activity. The
pedagogical aim is to inform and motivate.
Interaction is achieved as students are to fill
in the blanks with the appropriate/missing
words.
II. About Everest: to the Top of the World:
This article is a follow-up activity of Like
Fathers, Like Sons. Students are paired up.
Student A is to fill in blanks in paragraphs
1, 3, 5..., while student B is to fill in blanks
in paragraphs 2, 4, 6…. After finishing
their own tasks, they help each other check
and correct the answers without giving the
answers directly. Through this information
gap activity, students learn by providing
hints and cooperating.
Lesson One
Mount Everest
Debbie Wen
How much do you know about
Mt. Everest?
When was Mt. Everest formed ?
Mt. Everest was formed about (50/ 60/70)
million years ago.
How tall is Mt. Everest?
The official altitude of the world's highest p____
eak
is 29,029 feet (8,848m). However, the National
Geographic Society has determined the height to
6 feet taller, 29,035 feet, but the Nepali
be _____
government has not yet been made this new
altitude o______.
fficial
Shifting tectonic plates continue to p______
ush
Everest upward, along with the whole Himalaya
mountain range, at 1.6 to 3.9 inches (4 to 10
centimeters) per year.
Where is Mt. Everest?
Everest is part of the Himalaya mountain range
Nepal and _______.
Tibet It is
along the border of _______
located 27° 59' North latitude, 86° 55' East
longitude.
Ownership: Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal
Why is it called Mt. Everest?
In 1841, Sir George Everest, Surveyor General
of India from 1830 to 1843, first recorded the
location of Everest. It was subsequently named
"Peak XV". In 1865, it was renamed Mt.
honor Sir George.
Everest to ________
Sir George Everest
(1790–1866),
Surveyor General
of India, 1830–43.
Everest is also called Chomolungma in Tibet
mother goddess of the universe) and
(means: _______
Sagarmatha in Nepal (means: goddess of the
sky
______).
The summit of Mt. Everest is the highest
elevation above sea level on planet Earth,
and its name has entered the language as a
metaphor for the ultimate of anything.
back
Mount Everest, standing over 29,000 feet
above the surface of the sea, is the highest
point on earth on which a human can walk. As
such, the challenge of reaching this so-called
"Third Pole" was a dream of explorers and
mountaineers from the moment it was first
identified as the highest point in the world.
In 1953, Edmund
Hillary(left), a beekeeper
from New Zealand, and
Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa
from Nepal, reached the
top of Everest, the tallest
mountain on Earth. Norgay
died in 1986.
"You know we had this psychological barrier.
We didn't know if it was humanly possible for a
human being to set foot on top of Everest, even
using oxygen. All the physiologists had warned
us that it might be impossible. So my feeling was
we were going to give it all we had and if
get to the
everything went well, maybe we'd ___________
top
______."
--- Sir Edmund Hillary
(at an interview, 1996)
"You cannot be a good mountaineer, h______
owever
great your ability, unless you are cheerful and
have the spirit of comradeship. F______
riends are
as important as achievement. Another is that
teamwork is the one key to success and that
selfishness only makes a man ________.
small
Still
another is that no man, on a mountain or
elsewhere, gets more out of
anything than he puts into it.“
--- Tenzing Norgay
To mark the 50th anniversary of Tenzing
Norgay and Edmund Hillary doing what at
that time seemed only just a dream, Peter
Hillary and Jamling Norgay returned to
Everest in 2002.
Left to right,
Jamling Norgay,
Brent Bishop, and
Peter Hillary
“To climb Everest I
always say that the main
keys are mountaineering
assion
experience and p______.
It must come from ______
within
you. In fact anything you
do in life must come from
the heart."
--- Jamling Norgay
Son of Tenzing norgay, Jamling was climbing
by age six. In 1985, Jamling moved to the U.S.
to attend Northland College in Ashland,
Wisconsin, where he studied business
administration.
Jamling with father
Jamling last summited Everest in 1996, but
refuses to try for the peak again after separate
expeditions that year ended with 15 deaths.
Jamling continues to guide expeditions,
including Peter Hillary’s May 2002 ascent.
Jamling Norgay
climbs one of
Everest's ice walls.
Peter Hillary grew up
surrounded by adventure, and
has accompanied his father on
many expeditions. He dedicated
his May 2002 Everest ascent to
his father.
Everest is Mighty, We are Fragile
by Peter Hillary
For Everest climbers, there has been progress,
but it lies only in the technology of our
equipment and communications. The mountain
r______ the
same: huge, steep, cold and
remains
impassive toward our human endeavor.
On the great mountains of the world there is
took the lives
constancy, and the Everest that _____
of George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine in
the 1920’s is the same Everest that was finally
climbed by my father and Tenzing Norgay in 1953,
the same one I climbed on May 10, 1990, with
Rob Hall and Gary Ball on a brilliant sunny
day, and it is the same Everest that took the
lives of eight climbers, including Rob’s, in a
terrible storm on May 10, 1996.
change While having all
Some things never _______.
the right equipment and clothing is essential,
it is only 5% of the mountaineering equation of what is needed to reach the top. The rest
you Do you have the drive, the
lies with _____.
psyche, the power? Equipment
Clothing = 5% of mountaineering
by Peter Hillary
Photo Gallery
Base camp
Sunset on Everest
Sherpa women
Yaks
References:
Mt. Everest Information:
www.teameverest03.org/everest_info/
Mt. Everest History and Facts:
www.mnteverest.net/history.html
Higher Than Everest?
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/exposure/higher.html
Sherpas On EVerest
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/history/sherpason.html
Everest: To the Top of the World
www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/2003/apr/everest/
NGC's 'Mission Everest' to air on Star Plus, [V]
www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k3/apr/apr54.htm
Touching My Father’s Soul
www.touchingmyfatherssoul.com/author.html
Everest is Mighty, we are fragile
www.peterhillary.com/Fragile.htm
References:
Tenzing Norgay Sherpa
www.tenzing-norgay.com/ about/tenzing1.html
www.4to40.com/images/legends/tenzing/tenzing_norgay.gif
www.ponsprim.com/.../Doodleart/ album1.html
http://classic.mountainzone.com/climbing/himalayan/
http://teacher.scholastic.com/hillary/archive/sherpas.htm