Question

i. Hillary and Tenzing could not embrace properly when they reached the top because_____
ii. Hillary couldn't hear what Tenzing said because _____________
iii. Hillary took a photograph of Tenzing holding aloft the flags of _____________
iv. The pact was signed in the ________________

Answer 1

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Excerpted From "50 Years on Everest," by Contributing Editor David Roberts, National Geographic Adventure, April 2003

• By today's standards, the 1953 British expedition, under the military-style leadership of Sir John Hunt, was massive in the extreme, but in an oddly bottom-heavy way: 350 porters, 20 Sherpas, and tons of supplies to support a vanguard of only ten climbers. "Our climbers were all chosen as potential summiters," recalls George Band, 73, who was one of the party. Fifty years later, Band's memory of the campaign remains undimmed. "The basicplan was for two summit attempts, each by a pair of climbers, with a possible third assault if necessary. On such expeditions the leader tends to designate the summit pairs quite late during the expedition, when he sees how everybody is performing." Anxiety over who is chosen for the summit team would be a hallmark of major Everest expeditions for decades to come. But never again would thestakes be quite so high.