Snowboarding in the Himalayas - Module 6

C2 Proficiency · Open Cloze · Expert Proficiency Resource Book, Pearson Education

For questions 1–8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space. There is an example at the beginning.

My snowboarding trip to the Himalayas was unforgettable. A helicopter set us (0) ___ on a narrow mountain ledge at 4,600 metres, sending huge gusts of snow into the air as it departed. (1) ___ struck me was how very far we were from any sign of civilisation. (2) ___ on remote off-piste slopes in the European Alps, you're never too far away from a discarded ski pole or a chocolate wrapper borne aloft on the wind. But here, at roughly three miles up, there was nothing in sight (3) ___ than snow and rock. Rows of jagged mountain peaks stretched (4) ___ the distance, the world below invisible beneath layers of cloud. It was difficult not to feel (5) ___ similar to vertigo, a sense of disequilibrium (6) ___ on by the extremity of our isolation. Meanwhile, being stricken by altitude sickness was a real danger. (7) ___ the helicopter slowly disappeared from view, silence descended. We clipped on our boards, made our (8) ___ gingerly to the edge of the ledge and then dropped: into the whiteness below.

Snowboarding in the Himalayas

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