INSTRUCTIONS
I
want you to add a NAMED ANCHOR link at the beginning
of each paragraph and also on the title. The title Named ANCHOR should
be "Top". Call each paragraph "P1", P2", etc.
Left
Hand Column
In
the left hand column add the links to each of the Named Achors.
Remeber,
click where you want the Named Ancor to be, THEN click INSERT>>NAMED
ANCHOR and enter the name suggested above.
THEN
on the left CLICK FIRST where you want the link to be BEFORE you click
INSERT>>HYPERLINK and fill out the TEXT and LINK boxes and say
OK
Bottom
of the page
At
the bottom you will see the word "Top" Add a link to bring
you to the top of the page using the "Top" NAMED ANCHOR
On Top of the
World
On May 29, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and his guide Tenzing
Norgay became the first people to climb Mount Everest, the highest point
on the earth. Many explorers had tried to climb Mount Everest before,
but none had made it to the top. Some died during the journey, and others
turned back before reaching the top.
Mount
Everest is in Nepal, an Asian country with “eight of the ten highest
mountains in the world. Mount Everest, the highest, soars 29,035 feet
(8,850 m).” (Boehm 152).
Although
a few adventurers have climbed to the top of Mount Everest since Sir
Edmund Hillary, he was definitely the first. Sir Edmund was born in
1919, and he grew up in Auckland, New Zealand. He worked as a beekeeper,
but his real passion was climbing mountains. He climbed mountains in
New Zealand, and then he climbed the Alps and the Himalayas. In the
Himalayas, he climbed many peaks over 20,000 feet high. He decided he
was ready to conquer Mount Everest, whose summit is over 29,000 feet.
Between
1920 and 1952, seven groups of explorers had tried to climb to the top
of Mount Everest. In 1924, the famous climber George Leigh-Mallory died
during the journey. In 1952, a group of climbers from Switzerland had
to turn back when they were only 1000 feet from the top.
In
1953, the year Sir Edmund and Tenzing Norgay made it to Everest’s
highest summit; no one knew what the conditions on the top would be
like. People knew that it was cold, and that there was less oxygen,
but they did not know how cold, or how much oxygen was at the top.
Sir
Edmund Hillary and his guide Tenzing Norgay did not know what the conditions
would be like, either. Sir Edmund said:
We didn’t know if it was humanly possible to reach the top of
Mount Everest. And even using oxygen as we were, if we did get to the
top, we weren’t at all sure whether we wouldn’t drop dead
or something of that nature. (Decoursey)
Sir
Edmund and Tenzing Norgay finally made it to the top, but their journey
was not over, because then they had to make the long, dangerous trip
back down! Sir Edmund became famous overnight, and soon after the expedition,
Queen Elizabeth II made him a knight.
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