to recognize that the cavalry30 wasn’t coming so I better do READING FOCUS something it myself.” into the teeth of the wind, deducing correctly that camp lay in Underline in this paragraph what the effect of going in the that direction. If he’d been wrong he would have stumbled wrong direction would have immediately down the Kangshung Face, the edge of which was been. a few yards in the opposite direction. Ninety minutes later he encountered unnaturally smooth, bluish-looking rocks,” “some which turned out to be the tents of Camp Four. A 430 The next morning, May 12, Athans, Burleson, and climbers from the IMAX team short-roped Weathers down to Camp Two. Although Weathers On the morning of May 13, in a hazardous helicopter rescue, was blind in his right Weathers and Gau31 were evacuated from the top of the icefall eye and able to focus his left eye within a cavalry: soldiers on horseback or motorized transport; an allusion to the idea that troops were not coming to the rescue. radius of only three Gau: Gau Ming-Ho, leader of the Taiwanese National “Makalu” or four feet, he Expedition, another team climbing on Everest. This cannot be included in this publication because the copyright holder has denied permission and/or has electronic use conditions with which we cannot comply. 232 from Into Thin Air
READING FOCUS to recognize that the cavalry30 wasn’t coming so I better do something it myself.” Underline in this paragraph what the effect of going in the wrong direction would have been. 430 Although Weathers was blind in his right eye and able to focus his left eye within a radius of only three or four feet, he into the teeth of the wind, deducing correctly that camp lay in that direction. If he’d been wrong he would have stumbled immediately down the Kangshung Face, the edge of which was a few yards in the opposite direction. Ninety minutes later he encountered “some unnaturally smooth, bluish-looking rocks,” which turned out to be the tents of Camp Four. A The next morning, May 12, Athans, Burleson, and climbers from the IMAX team short-roped Weathers down to Camp Two. On the morning of May 13, in a hazardous helicopter rescue, Weathers and Gau31 were evacuated from the top of the icefall cavalry: soldiers on horseback or motorized transport; an allusion to the idea that troops were not coming to the rescue. Gau: “Makalu” Gau Ming-Ho, leader of the Taiwanese National Expedition, another team climbing on Everest. This cannot be included in this publication because the copyright holder has denied permission and/or has electronic use conditions with which we cannot comply. 232 from Into Thin Air