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Question 14 Marks

Consider a typical climb, towards the summit on the last heights. You are sharing a rope with another climber. You firm in. He cuts the steps in the hard ice. Then he belays and you inch your way up. The climb is grim. You strain every nerve as you take every step. Famous climbers have left records of the help given by others. They have also recorded how they needed just that help. Else they might have given up. Breathing is difficult. You curse yourself for having let yourself in for this. You wonder why you ever undertook the ascent. There are moments when you feel like going back. It would be sheer relief to go down, instead of up. But almost at once you snap out of that mood. There is something in you that does not let you give up the struggle, And you go on. Your companion keeps up with you. Just another fifty feet. Or a hundred, maybe. You ask yourself: Is there no end? You look at your companion and he looks at you. You draw inspiration from each other. And then, without first being aware of it, you are at the summit.
Questions:
$(1)$ How does a climber expedite a typical climb towards the summit heights $?$
$(2)$ Why does a typical climb towards the summit on the last heights become discouraging$?$
$(3)$ When does a climber regain power not to give up$?$
$(4)$ What keeps climbers up in tough time$?$

Answer

While expediting a typical climb towards the summit on the last heights, a climber shares a rope with another climber. He firms in and cuts the steps in the hard ice. Then he belays and the other climber inches his way up.
A typical climb towards the summit on the last heights becomes discouraging as the breathing becomes very difficult.
When the climber once snaps out of the discouraging mood, he regains power not to give up and continue the expedition.
The inspiration that the climbers draw from each other keeps them up tough time.

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Question 24 Marks

Even when getting down from the summit, once the physical exhaustion had gone. I began asking myself the question why I had climbed Everest. Why did the act of reaching the summit have such a hold on my imagination? It was already a thing of the past. something done yesterday. With every passing day, it would become more remote. And then what would remain? Would my memories fade slowly away?
All these thoughts led me to question myself as to why people climb mountains. It is not easy to answer the question. The simplest answer would be, as others have said, "Because it is there." It presents great difficulties. Man takes delight in overcoming obstacles. The obstacles in climbing a mountain are physical. A climb to a summit means endurance, persistence and willpower. The demonstration of these physical qualities is no doubt exhilarating, as it was for me also.
Questions :
$(1)$ What question took hold of the writer's mind$?$
$(2)$ What is the simplest answer to the question Why people climb mountains'$?$
$(3)$ What does 'a climb to a summit' mean$?$
$(4)$ What is exhilarating, according to the writer $?$

Answer

The question that took hold of the writer's mind was 'Why he had climbed Everest?'
The simplest answer to the question Why people climb mountains' is: "Because it is there. They also add that because It presents great difficulties.
A climb to a summit means endurance. persistence and willpower.
According to the writer, the demon stration of the physical qualities that one exercises while climbing is exhilarating.

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Question 34 Marks

Of all the emotions which surged through me as I stood on the summit of Everest, looking over miles of panorama below us, the dominant one I think was humility. The physical in me seemed to say, "Thank God, it's all over!" However, instead of being jubilant, there was a tinge of sadness. Was it because I had already done the ultimate' in climbing and there would be nothing higher to climb and all roads hereafter would lead down $?$
By climbing the summit of Everest you are overwhelmed by a deep sense of joy and thankfulness. It is a joy which lasts a lifetime. The experience changes you completely. The man who has been to the mountains is never the same again.
Questions:
$(1)$ What made the writer say, "Thank God, it's all over !" $?$
$(2)$ Why did the writer feel 'a tinge of sadness'?
$(3)$ What were the writer's feeling by climbing the summit of Everest$?$
$(4)$ What kind of change does a an feel after once having climbed Everest$?$

Answer

The physical strain that the writer had till reaching the summit was over. That satisfaction made the writer say, "Thank God, it's all over!".
The writer felt that he had done the ultimate in climbing and then there would be nothing higher to climb and he had a tinge of sadness'.
By climbing the summit of Everest the writer was overwhelmed by a deep sense of joy and thankfulness.
After once having climbed Everest, a man feels himself completely changed. The man who has been to the mountains is never the same again.

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