Most young people enjoy some form physical activity such as walking,cycling,a game of some kind of football, or mountaineering.
Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risk on high mountains? This astonishment is caused probably by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure.
Mountaineering is sport and not game. There are no man-mnde rules, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of a differont thing that it would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering
attractive to many people, Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.
If we compare mountaineering and other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a "team game". We should be mistaken in this. There are,it is true, no "matches" between "teams" of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face, linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork.
The mountain climber konws that he may have to fight forces that are suronger and more powerful than men. He has to fight the forces of nature. His sport requiren high mental and physical quslities.
A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year. A skier is probably past his best by the age of thirty, and most intemational tennis champions are in their early twenties. But it is not unusual for a man of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. They may take more time than younger men, but they probably climb with more skill and less waste of efforts and they certainly experience equnl enjoyment.
Moumtaineering can be called a team sport because ______.
A.it is an Olympic event
B.teams compete against each other
C.mountaineers depend on each other while climbing
D.there are five climbers on cach team
正确答案是C