Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Mount Everest. This is a half-page worksheet with a three-sentence reading and three comprehension questions. A nicely symmetrical inquiry into Mount Everest.
Which is, after all, the tallest peak in the world. The mountain fascinated my crowd in high school, and we all rushed to see The Man Who Skied Down Everest when it arrived in Madison in early 1976. After seeing it, alas, we ridiculed it as an ego-driven mess that would have been better titled The Man Who Fell Down Everest.
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