2e
Change the underlined parts of the sentences into shortened clauses. Use the text to help you.
1. Having asked / After asking where to find the world’s highest peak, it would be only four years until I first
set foot on it.
2. We left at first light, heading up the icefall on the south side of the mountain, laden with rucksacks.
3. We passed towering columns, crumbling ledges and yawning crevasses; but as thick fog obscured the
route, I kept my head down, focusing on one step at a time.
4. I looked up, startled, knowing it was ice breaking away from the mountain, but was unable to see more
than a few metres ahead.
5. It just kept coming, forcing snow into my nose and mouth.
6. (While) gasping for air, I tried to swim against the white tide.
7. I thought of my family back home and imagined the headlines announcing my death.
8. Twenty-two people had been killed, including three members of our support team.
9. On the way home, I broke down, eaten up by survivor’s guilt.