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In this edition of People and Places, we meet a ski mountaineer, Suzy Madge, who takes us to an extremely high, cold and lonely place - the Mustagata mountain in China.
Suzy is the leader of a group of women called The Lipstick Blondes who recently attempted to climb Mustagata mountain. She talks about a difficult decision she had to make on the expedition.

Find out what 'ski mountaineering' really is! And you can find out more about the language of this week's programme, below.

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Vocabulary from the programme

meditative
from the word 'meditation', meaning to concentrate your mind on just one thing

exhilarating
if something is 'exhilarating', it makes you feel happy and alive

summit
the highest point of a mountain

'to do your own thing'
to do something the way you want to do it

'to stick together'
an informal expression, meaning 'to stay together'

your ego
your idea of yourself and of your importance and ability

'in mountaineering terms ...', 'in other terms ...'
here, the word 'terms' is used to describe which area of a subject you're discussing
Other examples are: 'in financial terms ...', 'in money terms ...'

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