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Old 18-May-2003, 14:36
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Adventure. :)

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Hi Ron, same here, i havenot ever ridden the cable car over the mountain, and it's more interesting in my eyes to climb the mountain by yourself not cars , the course of climbing is just like you are trying to conquer the nature and taste the success after reaching the summit of the mountain. What do you think?
While you are climbing the mountain I will stay at the bottom and wait for you to come back and tell me what it was like. :wink:

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"He/she is amazed at daredevil mountaineers who risk their lives and the comfort of home to summit mountains."

As for the quoted sentence, i 'd like to rewrite like this :
For those who think it's unworthy to toss their dear life on climbing with danger any time and sacrifice the comfort feeling of staying at home , they will never do this but ride the cable car!
That is rather more creative than I had in mind, but perhaps you have the right idea.

Let's stick a little closer to the target sentence.

"He/she is amazed at daredevil mountaineers who risk their lives and the comfort of home to summit mountains."

First, let's choose he as a term that can signify a person of either sex. Second, a person is amazed by people or amazed at what they do. Third, you can't risk the comfort of home, but you can give up the comfort of home. Here is how I would rewrite that sentence: "He is amazed by daredevil mountaineers who risk their lives and willingly give up the comfort of home to climb mountains." Here is another possiblbity: "He (or she) is amazed at the feats of daredevil mountaineers who risk their lives and willingly give up the comfort of home to climb mountains."

How's that? :)

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