One of the most  d______ sports in the world is mountain climbing. And one of the most popular p______ to go for this is the Himalayas. The Himalayas r_______ along the southwestern border of china. These extremely high risks attract (吸引) c________ from all over the world. They want to c__________ themselves in the face of difficulties. Of all the mountains Qomolangma r_____ the highest and is the most famous. It’s the h______ to climb Qomolangma because thick clouds c_______ the top of the mountain. Even more serious difficulties i_______ the freezing weather conditions and the heavy storms. The first people to reach the top of Qomolangma – Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary – did it in 1953. The first Chinese team did so in 1960, and in 1975, the first women did it too. The spirit of them shows that humans can sometimes be stronger than the f______ of nature.