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Past Time Clauses LESSON 3

EXPLORE

1 READ the article about Jimmy Chin, a mountain climber and photographer.
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Notice the words in bold.

Surviving an Avalanche

Jimmy Chin is one of the few people to survive a Class 4
avalanche—an avalanche big enough to destroy buildings.
In 2011, while he was skiing in the Teton Mountains,
an avalanche started behind him. Chin was going down
the mountain when, in his own words, “the whole
mountainside came down.”

The avalanche buried Chin under tons of snow and carried
him downhill. Halfway down, the rolling snow threw him to
the surface. However, Chin was not safe. When he looked
Jimmy Chin has climbed up and up, trees were snapping all around him. The snow was still
skied down Mount Everest, the
world’s highest mountain. moving fast. Soon the avalanche buried him again.
“I knew I was going to the bottom of the valley,” he remembers. Amazingly, when the
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avalanche reached the bottom of the mountain, Chin was pushed to the surface! He was alive
and on top of the snow when his very surprised friends reached the bottom of the valley.

After this experience, Chin took a month off from work. “It’s important to do what’s
meaningful to you,” he says. “You don’t want to take your time for granted.” 2

1 amazingly: (very) surprisingly
2 take something for granted: not be grateful enough for something

An avalanche carries
hundreds of tons of snow
down a mountain.

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