English BLANKS - CORRECT WORD [3M]

(imagination, exhaustion, reaching, something, getting, climbed) Even when ……1……. down from the summit, once the physical …..2……. had gone, I began asking myself the question why I had ……..3…….. Everest. Why did the act of …….4……… the summit have such a hold on my …………5……… ? It was already a thing of the past, ………6………. done yesterday.

(mightiest, halfway, remains, brutal, granted, defied) Once having …….1……… this, the question ……2………. Why Everest? Because it is the highest, the ………..3………. and has ……….4………… many previous attempts. It takes the last ounce of one’s energy. It is a ……….5………. struggle with rock and ice. Once taken up, it cannot be given up ……..6……….. even when one’s life is at stake.