Online Learning Activities
Mount Everest Glossary: An Edmund Hillary Conquers Mount Everest Activity
Scholastic’s glossary of 18 terms, from “crevasse” to “sherpa,” helps familiarize students with the language of mountain climbing.
- Grades: 3–5, 6–8
Scholastic’s “Mount Everest Glossary” (grades 3–8) helps students develop vocabulary associated with mountain climbing and Edmund Hillary’s Mount Everest adventure. The 18 vocabulary words include the following:
- Assault team: Two or more climbers who attempt to reach a mountain summit.
- Cornice: An overhanging mass of hardened snow at the edge of a ridge, usually formed by wind.
- Porter: A person who carries supplies.
- Sirdar: A Sherpa leader on a mountaineering or trekking expedition.
- Traverse: (v.), To cross a mountain slope; (n.), a steep slope that has to be climbed from side to side.
Learning Objectives
- Develop vocabulary and factual knowledge associated with mountain climbing, Sir Edmund Hillary, and Mount Everest
Related Resources
Students meet Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, the first men to conquer Mt. Everest.
- Subjects:Vocabulary, Geography and Map Skills, World History
- Skills:Vocabulary
