Hello 大家好！大家周末过得如何呢？从这一期开始，我们将给大家连续介绍几座世界上有名的山脉，让大家借此机会来了解不同的山脉。这一期我们就来讲一下世界上最高的山脉 -- 喜马拉雅山脉的珠穆朗玛峰。

Hello everyone and welcome to episode 14 of Weekend English Club. I want to start talking about mountains in the coming weeks, and will start with the most famous mountain, called Mount Everest.

Mount Everest is part of the Himalayas, a long area of mountains on the Western border of China. The mountain is both part of China and part of Nepal, and the border between these two countries is located on the mountain. In English the mountain was named after George Everest, a British government worker, but the mountain also has older names in the Tibetan and Nepali languages. In the Nepali language they use a name which translates to “goddess of the sky” and in Tibet they have a name which means “holy mother”.

Mount Everest is famous because it is the tallest mountain in the entire world, and in 2020 the peak of the mountain was recorded to be at a height of almost 9000 meters. Nothing else in the world is taller than that. Climbing the mountain is incredibly dangerous and can not be done without much preparation and training. At the top there is very little oxygen and it is extremely cold. It is hard to breathe and with all the snow and wind you can easily freeze or fall down, so most people who go up the mountain now use local guides.

The first people we know who tried to climb the mountain were British, starting in 1921. The first attempts were not successful, and during one of them two people even disappeared. Only the ninth attempt was successful in reaching the peak of the mountain. The men who did so were Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal, in 1953.

The temperature on the mountain is always below zero, and around January it can be -36 degrees.

• Border: 国界，边境
• Nepal：尼泊尔
• Be named after：以...命名
• British：英国的，英国人
• Tibetan：西藏的
• Goddess：女神
• Peak：山顶；顶点
• Height：高度
• Incredibly：难以置信地；非常地
• Oxygen：氧气
• Breathe：呼吸
• Freeze：结冰；冻住；感到很冷，冻僵
• Attempts：尝试（复数）
• Disappeared：消失（过去式）
• New Zealand：新西兰
• Temperature：温度，气温

主播：Daniel

校对：nan_nan