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What did Hillary find in a tiny hollow?

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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing reached a tiny hollow. They found two oxygen bottles left there by Evans and Bourdillon after a failed attempt.

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पाठ 4.1: The Summit - Exercise [पृष्ठ ११६]

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पाठ 4.1 The Summit
Exercise | Q 1. d) | पृष्ठ ११६

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

What was Lucia suffering from?


Describe the appearance of Nicola and Jacopo.


What were the various jobs undertaken by the little boys?


Describe the girl with whom the boys were talking to in the cubicle.


What message is conveyed through the story ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’?


Adversity brings out the best as well as the worst in people. Elucidate this statement with reference to the story


Which tea does the author prefer– China tea or Indian tea?


Do tea lovers generally like strong tea or weak tea?


How was Dr. Barnard’s attitude to suffering different from that of his father’s?


How does Dr. Barnard know the boy who played the trolley’s driver?


What was the profound lesson that Dr. Barnard learnt from the boys?


Detail the statistics Dr. Barnard has provided in his speech.


What happened when the doctor couple were crossing the street?


Dr. Barnard couldn’t find any nobility in suffering. Why?


What were the problems the trolley driver suffered from?


“These two children had given me a profound lesson …” Elucidate.


Life is unjust and cruel to certain people. Do they all resign themselves to their fate? Can you think of some who have fought their disabilities heroically and remained a stellar example for others? (for e.g. the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, a paraplegic). Give an account of one such person and his/her struggle to live a fruitful life.


When did Hillary feel a sense of freedom and well being?


What did Hillary mean by saying “We had had enough to do the job, but by no means too much”?


Write character sketches of Maamanaar and Pedanna.


Define ‘liberty’ as perceived by the author.


What is ‘liberty’ according to the old lady?


Civilization can only exist when the public collectively accepts constraints on its freedom of action – Explain.


Para 4

Tenzing kicked steps in a long
traverse back towards the ridge, and we
reached its crest where it forms a great
snow bump at about 28000 feet. From
here the ridge narrowed to a knife-edge
and, as my feet were now warm, I took
over the lead.

Para 5

The soft snow made a route on top
of the ridge both difficult and dangerous,
which sometimes held my weight but often
gave way suddenly. After several hundred
feet, we came to a tiny hollow and found
there the two oxygen bottles left on the
an earlier attempt by Evans and Bourdillon.
I scraped the ice off the gauges and was
relieved to find that they still contained
several hundred liters of oxygen-enough
to get us down to the South Col if used sparingly

Para 6

I continued making the trail on up
the ridge, leading up for the last 400 feet
to the southern summit. The snow on this
the face was dangerous, but we persisted in
our efforts to beat a trail up it.
We made frequent changes of
lead. As I was stamping a trail in the deep
snow, a section around me gave way and

Para 7

I slipped back through three or four of
my steps. I discussed with Tenzing the
the advisability of going on, and he, although
admitting that he felt unhappy about the
snow conditions, and finished with his
the familiar phrase “Just as you wish”.

Para 8

I decided to go on, and we finally
reached firmer snow higher up, and then
chipped steps up the last steep slopes and
crampon onto the South Peak. It was now 9 a.m.

Give an account of the journey to the South Col from 28,000 feet. (Para 4 to 8)


Para 19

neighbour Makalu, unexplored and
unclimbed. Far away across the clouds,
the great bulk of Kanchenjunga loomed
on the horizon. To the west, we could
see the great unexplored ranges of Nepal
stretching off into the distance.

Para 20

The most important photograph,
I felt, was a shot down the North Ridge,
showing the North Col and the old route
which had been made famous by the
struggles of those great climbers of the
1920’s and 1930’s. After ten minutes,
I realized that I was becoming rather
clumsy-fingered and slow-moving. So I
quickly replaced my oxygen set

Describe the view from the top. What was the most important photograph? (Para 19 and 20)


‘There is no height, no depth that the spirit of man, guided by higher Spirit cannot attain’. Discuss the above statement in the context of the achievement of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing.


Solve the clues given below and complete the cross word

Across Down
1.You can watch programmes, matches and news on it 1. You can sit around it
4. You can lie on this and sleep 2. You can put flowers in this
6.You can sit on this and relax by yourself 3. You can sit on this with two other people comfortably
11.You can store all your books here 5. You can do your writing work on this
12.This can give you light when it is dark 7. This can cover a small space and decorate the floor
 

8. You can put all your clothes in here

 

 

9. You can look into this to see yourself

 

10. You can sit on this, it has 3 legs.


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