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Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from news reports.

Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence correctly.

mountaineer / summit / octogenarian / ascent / short-lived

1.
As Wall Street's record breaking run continues, some analysts wonder if it will be __________.

2.
The route, starting and ending at Brockhole Visitor Centre on the shores of Windermere, includes six mountain passes, with 14,000 ft (4,267m) of ________ and descent, and passes five lakes.

3.
When the French climber Maurice Herzog conquered the Himalayan mountain, Annapurna, in 1950 he and fellow ________ Louis Lachenal became the first men to reach a mountain peak more than 8,000m (26,247 ft) high.

4.
An _________ monarch - who has had time off sick but who aides insist is fit and well - with her eldest son and heir who she will have to rely on more and more as she gets older.

5.
Me, Colton and our friend Ian, decided we wanted to reach the ______ of the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States - Mount Whitney.