Free climbing is something that takes a lot of strength and ____. It ____ climbing rocks using just your hands and feet. In other words, you use ____and equipment but these do not help you climb. Instead, they provide ____if you fall. In 2014, Americans Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson ____ the first people to climb an extremely difficult part of the rock El Capitan. The section they climbed is ____ Yosemite’s Dawn Wall, and is about 3,000 feet high. In climbing terms, it is ____ into thirty-two rope-length sections, which are known as ‘pitches’. Caldwell and Jorgeson’s aim was to become the first climbers to free climb the ____set of thirty-two pitches. But they were also going to do it without stopping to ____ to the ground. ____, they decided that if either of them did fall during a pitch, they would ____and complete that pitch before they could ____. The first 14 pitches, which were said to include some of the more difficult parts of the climb, ____ them only six days to complete. This in itself was a personal ____ for them as they had never before got further than pitch 13 in the previous years of ____ to climb El Capitan. Two weeks into the climb, Caldwell had ____to free climb an ____ twenty out of the total thirty-two pitches while Jorgeson was having a lot of trouble with pitch 15. For ten days he had repeatedly ____to complete this section but without ____. He knew that if he couldn’t complete it, Caldwell ____ have to continue alone. This was not something either one of the climbers wanted. Fortunately, on his eleventh ____, Jorgeson managed to finish pitch 15 and in a matter of days, both climbers had reached a ____ of 2,000 feet with only the easier climbing left above them. After an ____nineteen days spent on the rock, the two young men ____in reaching the *peak of El Capitan. They had ____ their record!

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