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Mount Everest is the tallesttall (adj)Highest in height.≈ Synonym: highest🇺🇿UZ: eng baland🇷🇺RU: самый высокий mountain on Earth. It is part of the Himalayan mountain rangerange (noun)A line of connected mountains or hills.≈ Synonym: chain of mountains🇺🇿UZ: tizma🇷🇺RU: хребет and sits on the borderborder (noun)The line dividing two countries.≈ Synonym: boundary🇺🇿UZ: chegara🇷🇺RU: граница between Nepal and China. Everest risesrise (verb)Goes up to a certain height.≈ Synonym: reaches up🇺🇿UZ: ko'tariladi🇷🇺RU: поднимается 8,848 metres above sea levelsea levelThe average height of the ocean's surface, used to measure altitude.≈ Synonym: ocean surface level🇺🇿UZ: dengiz sathi🇷🇺RU: уровень моря, so high that the air at the top has very little oxygenoxygen (noun)The gas in the air that people need to breathe.≈ Synonym: air needed for breathing🇺🇿UZ: kislorod🇷🇺RU: кислород. This makes climbing it extremelyextremely (adverb)To a very great degree.≈ Synonym: very🇺🇿UZ: juda ham, o'ta🇷🇺RU: чрезвычайно dangerous. Yet, every year, people from around the world try to reach its peakpeak (noun)The top point of a mountain.≈ Synonym: summit🇺🇿UZ: cho'qqi🇷🇺RU: вершина.
The mountain is known as Sagarmatha in Nepal and Chomolungma in Tibet. Both names mean “Goddess of the Sky” or something similar. For local people, the mountain is a sacredsacred (adj)Considered holy and deserving great respect.≈ Synonym: holy🇺🇿UZ: muqaddas🇷🇺RU: священный place. Climbersclimber (noun)People who climb mountains.≈ Synonym: mountaineers🇺🇿UZ: alpinistlar🇷🇺RU: альпинисты are expected to respectrespect (verb)To treat something or someone with honor and consideration.≈ Synonym: honor🇺🇿UZ: hurmat qilmoq🇷🇺RU: уважать its beauty and power.
The first people to reach the top of Everest were Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal. In 1953, after many days of hard climbing and battlingbattle (verb)Fighting hard against something difficult.≈ Synonym: fighting against🇺🇿UZ: kurashmoq🇷🇺RU: бороться strong winds and freezingfreezing (adj)Extremely cold.≈ Synonym: extremely cold🇺🇿UZ: muzlatuvchi, ayozli🇷🇺RU: морозный temperaturestemperature (noun)Measures of how hot or cold something is.≈ Synonym: degrees of heat or cold🇺🇿UZ: harorat🇷🇺RU: температура, they stood at the summitsummit (noun)The highest point of a mountain.≈ Synonym: peak, top🇺🇿UZ: cho'qqi🇷🇺RU: вершина. Their successsuccess (noun)The achieving of a goal or aim.≈ Synonym: achievement🇺🇿UZ: muvaffaqiyat🇷🇺RU: успех became famous around the world and inspiredinspire (verb)Made someone want to do something great.≈ Synonym: motivated🇺🇿UZ: ilhomlantirdi🇷🇺RU: вдохновило many others to try.
Climbing Everest is not easy. The weather can change suddenlysuddenly (adverb)Quickly and unexpectedly.≈ Synonym: unexpectedly🇺🇿UZ: to'satdan🇷🇺RU: внезапно, bringing snowstormssnowstorm (noun)Storms with heavy snow and strong wind.≈ Synonym: blizzards🇺🇿UZ: qor bo'roni🇷🇺RU: снежная буря and freezing winds. The air is so thinthin (adj)Containing little oxygen, not dense (used to describe air).≈ Synonym: not dense🇺🇿UZ: siyrak (havo)🇷🇺RU: разрежённый (воздух) that climbers often need to use oxygen tankstank (noun)Large containers used for holding gas or liquid.≈ Synonym: containers🇺🇿UZ: ballon, idish🇷🇺RU: баллон to help them breathebreathe (verb)To take air into and out of the lungs.≈ Synonym: inhale and exhale🇺🇿UZ: nafas olmoq🇷🇺RU: дышать. There are also dangerous places on the mountain, such as deep crackscrack (noun)Narrow openings or splits in something.≈ Synonym: splits🇺🇿UZ: yoriqlar🇷🇺RU: трещины in the ice called crevassescrevasse (noun)Deep cracks in ice, especially on a glacier or mountain.≈ Synonym: ice fissures🇺🇿UZ: muz yoriqlari🇷🇺RU: трещины во льду.
So why do people riskrisk (verb)To put something in danger for a chance of gain.≈ Synonym: endanger🇺🇿UZ: xavf ostiga qo'ymoq🇷🇺RU: рисковать their lives to climb Everest? For some, it is the adventureadventure (noun)An exciting and unusual experience.≈ Synonym: exciting experience🇺🇿UZ: sarguzasht🇷🇺RU: приключение of a lifetimelifetime (noun)The whole period of a person's life.≈ Synonym: a whole life🇺🇿UZ: umr bo'yi🇷🇺RU: целая жизнь. Others want to test their limitslimit (noun)The greatest amount or extent that is possible.≈ Synonym: boundaries of ability🇺🇿UZ: chegaralar (imkoniyat)🇷🇺RU: пределы возможностей and achieveachieve (verb)To successfully complete or reach a goal.≈ Synonym: accomplish🇺🇿UZ: erishmoq🇷🇺RU: достигать something great. But climbing Everest is not only about personal success. Climbers often speak about the deep respect they feel for nature’s power during their journeyjourney (noun)A trip from one place to another.≈ Synonym: trip🇺🇿UZ: sayohat, safar🇷🇺RU: путешествие.