Can any one tell me the meaning os some words in the following sentences and then explain the sentence?

Question

1-I'm completely taken by doucumentaries of the great outdoors, you know the sort, animals, plants and far away places.

Meaning of taken by, docimentaries of great outdoors, you know the sort.

2-We would have been rewarded because we fell upon amazing, high meadows and huge gorges.

Meaning of rewarded here, meadows, gorges.

3-On both the really high summits, they took diversions that were quite out of character.

Meaning of high summits, out of character.

Thanks

Answer 1

Sentence #1:

taken by = short for "taken in by" meaning "enchanted", "enthralled", "entranced", ie. the writer really, really, really likes them

documentaries = film or television programs that are neither news nor fiction, but which seek to "document" a person, place, event or thing by exploring through the visual media. Therefore, "documentaries of the great outdoors" could be alternately worded "nature documentaries." Things like National Geographic specials or the old "Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom" series are this kind of programing. In film, "March of the Penguins" was a nature documentary.

you know the sort = the writer is assuming that her audience knows what she's talking about. i.e. "you've seen this kind of documentary"

Sentence #2:

rewarded = to receive something as a prize. In this case, the effort of the travel (I'm going to assuming hiking and/or climbing) reveals beautiful meadows and gorges and the view of those meadows and gorges is taken as a reward (for the climb) by the writer.

meadow = a grassy area
gorges = deep, often jagged, valleys, canyons or fjords

Sentence #3:

high summits = the peaks of very tall moutains

out of character = out of the ordinary; an action that you would not a expect a particular person to take.


Does that help?

Answer 2

taken by means I like, I am interested in
documentaries of the great outdoors means films about nature and possibly wildlife
rewarded here means they would have felt good by seeing fields and deep valleys between mountains
high summits are the tope of mountains and out of character means not in the way you usually behave or react to something