Mountain

 

https://thedailyguardian.com/world/japan/the-102-year-old-who-dared-mount-fuji-but-did-he-truly-conquer-japans-tallest-peak-649904/

What do you see in the picture? Do you know the name of this or where it is? What might the story be here?

This is mount Fuji in Japan. Mount Fuji is 3,766m tall and one of the tallest mountains in the world. 

What kind of person do you think you have to be to climb this mountain? What does a mountaineer look like?

This year Kokichi Akuzawa broke a world record to become the oldest person ever to climb Mount Fuji. 

Thinking about how fit you have to be to climb that high and that far, how old do you think Kokichi was?

Kokichi was 102 years old.

Kokichi says, "I was really tempted to give up half way through  but my friends encouraged me. I managed to get through it because  so many people supported me."

How do you think his friends supported him?
What might they have said when he wanted to give up?

Kokichi trained for 3 months to do his climb. He would get up at 5AM and go for hour long walks. he would also climb small mountains.

Why do you think Kokichi had to train for so long?

Kokichi says he loves mountian climbing and describes reaching the summit as "undeniable magic"

How do you think it feels to reach a summit after a long climb? Why does Kokichi describe it as magic?

But he says what keeps him coming back is the people he meets. "It's easy to make friends on the mountain. We were all on equal footing and moved forward together."
"It was only thanks to everyone else's strength that I made it."

What does Kokichi mean by this? What does "equal footing" mean?
Why do you think the people move forward together, why not race each other?
Why do you think Kokichi says he only made it because of other people when he is the one who broke the world record?
What can we learn from Kokichi?
Why is this about No Outsiders?
Which British Value is this about?

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No Outsiders: We belong here by Andrew Moffat  (scheme of work for primary schools) 


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