Answer the following questions in your own words :
1. Who was the other man to climb Everest with Tenzing? Where was he from?
2. Who is a Sherpa?
3. List four facts that are given in the passage about Tenzing's early life?
4. When Tenzing was a small boy, what particular task was he asked to undertake? Where, as
a result, had he to go?
5. Why was Tenzing, as a small boy, afraid?
6. State in your own words the two 'day-dreams' which Tenzing had in spite of his fear.
Answers
Answer:
1. Edmund Hillary
2. Sherpa is one of the Tibetan ethnic groups native to the most mountainous regions of Nepal in the Himalayas. The term sherpa or sherwa derives from the Sherpa language words ཤར shar ("east") and པ pa ("people"), which refer to their geographical origin of eastern Tibet.
3. Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986) was a well-known Nepalese mountaineer who set a record in 1952 by climbing 28,215 feet of Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. The following year he and Edmund Hillary became the first persons to reach its summit.
Tenzing Norgay was born on May 15, 1914 in Solo Khumbu, Nepal, a member of the Sherpa tribe. Sherpas have long been known for their positive spirit, strength, and mountain skills. When Europeans began exploring the Himalayas in the early part of the 20th century, they usually came to Darjeeling, India, and hired Sherpas to assist with their expeditions. Before long, this custom became an official system. Sherpas were registered as an elite force of expedition assistants. In Nepal, where Westerners were forbidden to go, Sherpas heard about this work and each year more young men headed to Darjeeling in search of jobs with mountaineering expeditions.
4. When tenzing was a small boy, he was asked to help to look after his father's animals ,which were sheep and goats and yaks, and he had no time to learn to write and read .
5. His ambition was to climb the mountains arround his home; and his home was near Everest and Everest was the highest mountain he could see. So, his special ambition was to climb to the top of that mountain. When Tenzing was a very small boy, his father used to send him out with the herds of yaks while they were grazing.
6. to climb Everest and to see what was beyond it. and to visit the holy cities of Tibet.
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