Read the excerpt and then choose the option that offers the best evidence for the
author's viewpoint below. VIEWPOINT- The ridge can be an intimidating place.
In the narrow crest of this ridge, the basic rock of the mountain had a thin capping of
snow and ice-ice that reached out over the East Face in enormous cornices,
overhanging and treacherous, and only waiting for the careless foot of the
mountaineer to break off and crash 10,000 feet into the Kangshung Glacier. And
from the cornices the snow dropped steeply to the left to merge with the enormous
rock bluffs which towered 8,000 feet.
a. “In the narrow crest of this ridge, the basic rock of the mountain had a thin
capping of snow and ice."
B. “...ice that reached out over the East Face in enormous cornices, overhanging
and treacherous.
C. “And from the cornices the snow dropped steeply to the left to merge with the
enormous rock bluffs which towered 8,000 feet."
D. All answers apply.

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