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FOCUS 8: Facing Crises, Consequences and Solutions
Hillary Challenge

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Social Studies concepts:

  • leading by example
  • crisis
  • support
  • fear/loneliness
  • adversity
  • determination

TASK:

Use charts to identify from the text:

  • the extreme physical challenges encountered on this stage of the ascent
  • the consequences for the team members of those extreme challenges
  • the mental challenges that team members faced
  • how they overcame the problems
  • the role Sir Edmund Hillary played in helping to overcome the problems.
  • depict the range of emotions the team members went through in this very extreme part of the ascent




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