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Question
Who did the narrator meet at the outskirts of Verona?
Solution
The Narrator met Nicola and Jacopo at the outskirts of Verona.
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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.
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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.
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to get us down to the South Col if used sparingly
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our efforts to beat a trail up it.
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lead. As I was stamping a trail in the deep
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