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42 -It is stated in the passage that ---- .

A) the Hindenburg was one of the first great airships

B) there were sixty -two people on board at the time of the disaster

C) ocean liners filled with hydrogen often ended up with explosions

D) after the Hindenburg disaster, there were no more airships of the same type

E) the great airships had a passenger capacity of from twenty -five to fifty passengers

Mountaineering as a sport has developed since about 1857, when the Alpine Club was founded in London. Earlier, climbers did not climb for pleasure but for some scientific or monetary motive, Dr Paccard of Chamonix was the first to scale Mont Blanc, in 1786, to show that man could live above the snow -line, but it was the lectures of Albert Smith, who climbed the peak in 1851, that kindled British interest. In 1854, Wills climbed the Wetterhorn and eleven years later, Whymper made his famous ascent of the Matterhorn. By 1880, all the major peaks of the Alps had been scaled, and so climbers went further afield to the Andes and the Himalayas.