when we were within reach of the summit I did not think of who was going to be first. pick out clause
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objectives
To make the students learn to develop the ability to understand the difficult situations in their life.
To help them to cope with the problems of life.
To enable the students to share their personal experiences.
To sensitize the students to the feelings of an individual.
To enable them to use new words and phrases in their own language.
To enable them to express themselves in grammatically correct language.
new words
Summit: the highest point
Panorama: view of a wide area
Jubilant: very happy because of success
Fade: disappear gradually
Brutal: very cruel, without mercy
key points
Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia was a member of the first successful expedition to Mount Everest in 1965.
The author H.P.S. Ahluwalia has narrated his experience of climbing the summit of Everest.
As the author stood on the summit many emotions surged through him.
Of all the emotions, the dominant one was humility.
Climbing the summit of Everest provides a deep sense of joy which lasts a lifetime and changes the climber completely.
According to the author, there is another summit- the summit of mind that is more difficult to climb.
After getting down from the summit, the author questioned himself as to why people climb mountains.
The mountain presents great difficulties.
Man takes delight in overcoming obstacles.
There are three qualities that played a major role in climbing- endurance, persistence and will power.
From childhood the author has been attracted by the mountains.
Mountains are nature at its best.
Mountains are a means of communion with God.
Adventure is risky but pleasurable.
It is a brutal struggle with rock and ice.
It gives the sense of a battle fought and won and a feeling of victory and of happiness.
It provides physical, emotional and spiritual experience.
The climbers left some symbols to make their obeisance.
The author left on Everest a picture of Guru Nanak.
Rawat left a picture of Goddess Durga.
Phu Dorji left a relic of the Buddha.
Edmund Hillary had buried a cross.
There is another summit that is in your mind.
The physical act of climbing to the summit of mountain outside is akin to the act of climbing mountain within.
It teaches us much about ourselves.
It gives us inspiration to face life’s ordeals with determination.
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