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Pre-Intermediate Student's Book: Adventurers of The Year

Edurne Pasaban is a famous mountaineer from Spain who climbed her first mountain at age 14. She studied engineering in university but wanted a more adventurous career. In 2010, she achieved her goal of climbing the 14 tallest mountains in the world. She climbs for adventure and life, not for fame. Steven Shoppman and Stephen Bouey are friends from Denver who took a 3-year road trip around the world from 2007 to 2010. They drove over 69 countries and 122,000 kilometers in their journey. They took risks like driving through a minefield but found the world less dangerous than expected with help from people they met.

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Pre-Intermediate Student's Book: Adventurers of The Year

Edurne Pasaban is a famous mountaineer from Spain who climbed her first mountain at age 14. She studied engineering in university but wanted a more adventurous career. In 2010, she achieved her goal of climbing the 14 tallest mountains in the world. She climbs for adventure and life, not for fame. Steven Shoppman and Stephen Bouey are friends from Denver who took a 3-year road trip around the world from 2007 to 2010. They drove over 69 countries and 122,000 kilometers in their journey. They took risks like driving through a minefield but found the world less dangerous than expected with help from people they met.

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Pre-Intermediate Student’s Book

Life
4a Page 46 READING TEXT

Adventurers of the year


Every year, readers of National Geographic magazine vote for their adventurers of
the year. Here are two of them.

THE MOUNTAINEER

As a child, Edurne Pasaban lived in the mountainous Basque region of Spain and
she climbed her first mountain when she was fourteen. At university, she studied
engineering but she didn’t want a nine-to-five job. In May 2010 she finished her
biggest challenge, to climb the world’s fourteen tallest mountains. Nowadays she is
famous for her many climbing achievements, However, she didn’t climb in order to
become famous. She says, ‘For me, adventure is a way of life.’

THE ROAD TRIPPERS

Steven Shoppman and Stephen Bouey were old friends who grew up together in
Denver. But they knew each other a lot better after their adventure. They both had
an ambition to go on a road trip round the world. From 2007 to 2010, they drove
through 69 different countries during their 122,000-kilometre journey and had
many adventures. They took a big risk when they went across a minefield (see
photo). They also got help from lots of people and they found that the world wasn’t
as dangerous as they thought!

road trip (n) /ˈrəʊdtrɪp/ a long journey by road

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