What happened to Stephen Venables when he was nine years old?

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Climb every mountain
Stephen Venables' love of mountains began at nine years old on a skiing trip to the Alps. '1
was thrilled,' he remembers. 'It was actually far more impressive and exciting than seeing the
Himalayas for the first time, because when you're nine it's all new and you don't know what to
expect.'
From that moment, Stephen knew that he wanted to climb mountains, but he didn't realise
then that one day he would be the first British man to climb Everest without oxygen. However
his record-breaking expedition in 1988 was not an easy one. 1 After years of climbing, he
was prepared for this and he knew that the best thing he could do was wait for the weather
to change.
'At first I tried sitting on a rock because rock is warmer than snow, but it wasn't completely fla
I really wanted to lie down so I decided to cut a ledge in the snow. I did sleep a bit,' he says.
'They always say you should stay awake but I was totally exhausted.' Fortunately, the storm
passed, and Stephen managed to climb back down to his camp and enter the record books.
The Everest expedition wasn't Stephen's only difficult climb. 2 'It was very unlucky that it
happened, but I was lucky that there were five of us.' The group included Chris Bonnington
and Stephen's good friend Harish Kapadia. It took them twelve hours to make camp in a safe
place. Then two of the team went for help.
'I think that was one of the most wonderful moments of my life - finally being in the tent and
realising that I could just lie back in my sleeping bag.' 3 By that time, there was almost no
food left. 'On the last day we had a boiled sweet and we used the last tea bag so many times
that it wasn't actually changing the colour of the water.' But luckily, the team managed to keep
going until help arrived.
1 What happened to Stephen Venables when he was nine years old?
He was able to compare two different mountain ranges.
b He realised where he would like to live in the future.
c He decided what he wanted to do in his life.
2 What is the writer's purpose in this article?
a To describe the best way to climb a mountain.
b To tell the story of a mountain climber.
c To explain why mountain climbing is dangerous.
a