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The Climb: Peng3:The Climb NE ESCOTT
Who is the stranger and why has he come to the island? Why does he look at Eagle's Rock and Vitalis' house? Costas wants to know the answers to these questions. And he wants to be the first to climb the dangerous Eagle's Rock. But will the stranger do it first? A dramatic adventure follows.
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First published February 17, 1992
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December 8, 2024
Two men hesitate whether they can and should climb the cliff that noone has ever been able to do. The result of that, they decided to climb it. I felt that the process that they decided to do it and the change of their mind were very interesting.
October 7, 2015
1. penguin readers level3
2. about 1 hour
3. a misterious stranger / the island / climbing / dangerous Rock
4. a. Costas loves climbing but he has never climbed Eagle’s Rock, with its crumbling handholds and its dangerous overhang. He is determined to climb it one day and be famous all over the island he lives on with his father, Mr Kazakou, and his sister, Eleni. Eagle’s Rock stands on one side of a C-shaped bay. At the top of the rock is a villa owned by a rich businessman, Mr Vitalis, a place known to be full of priceless paintings. On the cliff top on the other side of the bay is a holiday villa owned by Costas’s father. One day, the mysterious Mr Holland arrives to stay in the holiday villa, and Costas recognises him as none other than David Ashken, the onetime famous mountain climber. before, that is, he had a bad fall and lost his nerve. Costas sees Ashken looking at Eagle’s Rock through binoculars and realises that he, Ashken, is going to climb it.
b. There are two basic thems in this story. there is a Costas, the fearless youth who dreams of becoming famous by climbing a rock which would be dangerous even for a team of experienced mountaineers. On the other hand, there is David Ashken, a famous mountain climber who is too afraid to climb any more, after a fall in which he was seriously injured and a colleague was killed. He has lost not only his nerve but also his livelihood, since he cannot get paid for climbing or for writing about it. In desperation, he has almost turned to crime. I think the interest part of this book is that there are two climers who has differnt charactor each other.
5. English sentences in itself was easy to read for me and the amount was also normal, so It does not takes too much time to read. Although the turning of story was difficult to understand, I thought the book tells us about the feeling of young climers who climbs for the first time.
2. about 1 hour
3. a misterious stranger / the island / climbing / dangerous Rock
4. a. Costas loves climbing but he has never climbed Eagle’s Rock, with its crumbling handholds and its dangerous overhang. He is determined to climb it one day and be famous all over the island he lives on with his father, Mr Kazakou, and his sister, Eleni. Eagle’s Rock stands on one side of a C-shaped bay. At the top of the rock is a villa owned by a rich businessman, Mr Vitalis, a place known to be full of priceless paintings. On the cliff top on the other side of the bay is a holiday villa owned by Costas’s father. One day, the mysterious Mr Holland arrives to stay in the holiday villa, and Costas recognises him as none other than David Ashken, the onetime famous mountain climber. before, that is, he had a bad fall and lost his nerve. Costas sees Ashken looking at Eagle’s Rock through binoculars and realises that he, Ashken, is going to climb it.
b. There are two basic thems in this story. there is a Costas, the fearless youth who dreams of becoming famous by climbing a rock which would be dangerous even for a team of experienced mountaineers. On the other hand, there is David Ashken, a famous mountain climber who is too afraid to climb any more, after a fall in which he was seriously injured and a colleague was killed. He has lost not only his nerve but also his livelihood, since he cannot get paid for climbing or for writing about it. In desperation, he has almost turned to crime. I think the interest part of this book is that there are two climers who has differnt charactor each other.
5. English sentences in itself was easy to read for me and the amount was also normal, so It does not takes too much time to read. Although the turning of story was difficult to understand, I thought the book tells us about the feeling of young climers who climbs for the first time.
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