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People are not made to survive at the top of Mount Everest. At 29,000 feet (8,840 metres) above sea level—just below a commercia

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问题    People are not made to survive at the top of Mount Everest. At 29,000 feet (8,840 metres) above sea level—just below a commercial jet’s cruising altitude—exposure to the elements can cause death. Lucky climbers miss snowstorms, avalanches and crevasses. But one killer is inescapable: lack of oxygen. Atmospheric pressure at the summit is two-thirds less than at sea level. Breathing, sleeping and eating become nearly impossible; the body pumps more blood to the brain, often causing fatal swelling. Climbers call anything above 8,000 metres the "death zone". 【F1】For every 100 people who conquer Everest four never return to base camp; more than 200 bodies lie amid the ice and rock.
   【F2】Those who survive owe much to Finch, an Australian chemist who used portable oxygen tanks on the second of three British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s. It was a time when climbers dined poorly, and wore pyjamas under tweed. Finch was different. He wore innovative, custom-made, windproof gear produced from very thin light materials. The oxygen cylinders he designed, although they weighed 16kg for eight hours’ supply, made the death zone a little less deadly. 【F3】Finch was the best technical climber of his time, and he reached farther up Everest than anyone had done before—stopping only to carry a novice companion to safety.
   Few Western climbers have contributed as much. But as Robert Wainwright shows in "The Maverick Mountaineer", Finch’s achievements have been overshadowed. Mountaineering in the early 20th century was dominated by gentlemen who had been to Oxford or Cambridge and had a large supply of family money. 【F4】Finch, a colonial farm boy who trained in the Alps while studying in Zurich (苏黎世) before taking up a teaching post at Imperial College, London, was an outsider. His willingness to challenge received wisdom annoyed members of the Alpine Club in Mayfair, who barred him from two expeditions to Nepal. They believed that using artificial oxygen supplies was cheating, and their comments reveal their prejudice against Finch. "I always knew the fellow was a bad guy," said one.
   Mr Wainwright’s biography is detailed, at times too much so. Several chapters are devoted to Finch’s unhappy early years. 【F5】The best passages, though, are those that describe the battle of scientific progress against rooted snobbery—a fight that may have cost Finch the chance to stand on top of the world, but ought to be remembered.
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答案每一百位征服珠穆朗玛峰的登山者中，就有四个人没能再回到大本营；超过两百多具尸体永远沉睡在冰雪和岩石之间。
解析 ①此句为并列复合句，由两个分句构成，以分号隔开，其中分句1包含一个定语从句。②分句1中who引导的定语从句修饰先行词people，说明这是一百位要征服珠穆朗玛峰的登山者。③冒号后的分句2为简单的主谓宾结构，主语bodies意为“尸体；遗体”。句末的介词amid意为“在其中，在其间”，介宾短语amid the ice and rock表方位，意为“在冰雪和岩石之间”。
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