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Question
When did Hillary feel a sense of freedom and well being?
Solution
Their first partly-full bottle of oxygen got exhausted. They had only one oxygen bottle to cany. With a reduced load of 20-liter bottles, Hillary cut steps down off the South Summit. So, he felt a sense of freedom and well-being.
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Para 18
My first feelings were of relief–
relief that there were no more steps to
cut, no more ridges to traverse, and no
more humps to tantalize us with hopes
of success. I looked at Tenzing. In spite of
the balaclava helmet, goggles, and oxygen
mask – all encrusted with long icicles–that
concealed his face, there was no disguising
his grin of delight as he looked all around
him. We shook hands, and then Tenzing
threw his arm around my shoulders and
we thumped each other on the back until
we were almost breathless. It was 11.30
a.m. The ridge had taken us two and a
half hours, but it seemed like a lifetime
To the east was our giant
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