from their schools to take
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Question 4
One was Edmund Hillary, a New Zealander, and the other was
very simplest of peasant farmers. He never went to school. When he was
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow
On May 29, 1953, two men reached the top of Everest, the highest mountain in the
Sherpa, a native of the Himalayan mountains. These two men of different
the honour of the historic climb. But that climb, in itselt, is not the only reason
I have put Tenzing in this book. I have put him in because he is the only man
think of, in modem times, who was born in a poor and primite tribe far away
civilisation, and yet has won worldwide fame. Tenzing's mother and father were the
his job was to help to look after his father's animals, which were sheep and god
yaks, and he never had time to learn to read or write. Yet now, the name of Termine
known all over the world; and he has won his fame not just through luck, but became
of his own skill and character, and because when he was a boy he had a single
ambition and has stuck to it all his life. His ambition was to climb the mountains
his home; and his home was near Everest and Everest was the highest mountain
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 hende
of yaks, while they were grazing. In summer, the yaks went high up the mountains
above the flowering forests, to crop the grass which grows just below the snow and
glaciers and the vast rock walls of the high peaks. Many of Tenzing's people believed
that the mountain peaks were the homes of gods and demons, and Tenzing washa
afraid of them; yet even then, out alone with the herds, he used to dream daydreams
and imagine that one day he would dimb to the highest summits and see what was
on the other side, and perhaps even visit the holy cities of Tibet, which his parents
had told him lay beyond the mountains. The whole of Tenzing's life is the story
how he made this dream come true...
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