Chapter 5. The Summit Within

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Q1. Answer the following questions.

(i) What are the three qualities that played a major role in the author’s

Climb?

Ans: (i) Endurance, (ii) persistence and (iii) will power.

(ii) Why is adventure, which is risky, also pleasurable?

Ans: When an adventure is completed, it becomes a joy which lasts for a life time. It gives a sense of battle fought and won. There is a feeling of victory and of happiness.

(iii) What was it about Mount Everest that the author found irresistible?

Ans: The author found mount evrest more irrestible because it is the highest; the mightiest  and has made many unsuccessful earlier attempts to conquer it.

(iv) One does not do it (climb a high peak) for fame alone. What does one do

It for, really?

Ans: The after effects of climbing a high summit satisfying. It is not just a physical climb. One who has been to a mountain top becomes conscious of his own smallness. He is changed.

(v) “He becomes conscious in a special manner of his own smallness in

this large universe.” This awareness defines an emotion mentioned in

the first paragraph. Which is the emotion?

Ans: That emotion is humility.

(vi) What were the “symbols of reverence” left by members of the team on

Everest?

Ans: The symbols o reverence left by members of the teams on Everest were (i)a picture of Guru nanak.(ii) A picture of Godness dugra, (iii) A relic of the Buddha and (iv) a cross.

(vii) What, according to the writer, did his experience as an Ever ester teach him?

Ans: His exlerince as an Everester has taught him to face life’s painful experiences with determination of firmness.

Q2. Write a sentence against each of the following statements. Your sentence should explain the statement. You can pick out sentences from the text and rewrite them. The first one has been done for you.

(i)The experience changes you completely.

One who has been to the mountains is never the same again.

(ii) Man takes delight in overcoming obstacles.

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(iii) Mountains are nature at its best.

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(iv) The going was difficult but the after-effects were satisfying.

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(v) The physical conquest of a mountain is really a spiritual

Ans:(i) One who has been to the mountain is changed completely .

(ii) There is an eternal love of adventure in man. Overcoming obstacles satisfies man’s deep desire to rise above his surroundings.

(iii) The beauty and the majesty of mountains pose a great challenge. They are a means of communion with God.

(iv) The writer and the party got worldwide fame. He got a sense of fulfillment.

(v) One gets a sense of fulfillment. It is the satisfaction of a deep urge to rise above one’s surroundings.

Comprehension Check

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Q1. Standing on Everest, the writer was

(i) overjoyed.

(ii) very  sad.

(iii) jubilant and sad.

Choose the right item.

Ans: (ii) very said.

Q2. The emotion that gripped him was one of

(i) victory over hurdles.

(ii) humility and a sense of smallness.

(iii) greatness and self importance.

(iv) joy of discovery.

Choose the right item.

Ans: (ii) humility and a sense of smallness.

Q3. “The summit of the mind” refers to

(i) great intellectual achievements.

(ii) the process of maturing mentally and spiritually.

(iii) overcoming personal ambition for common welfare.

(iv) living in the world of thought and imagination.

(v) the triumph of mind over worldly pleasures for a noble cause.

(vi) a fuller knowledge of oneself.

Ans: (ii), (iii), (iv)

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