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Answer the following Questions  (i) What are the three qualities that played a major role in his climb ? (ii) Why is adventure, which is risky, also pleasurable ? (iii) What was it about Mount Everest that the author found irresistible ? (iv)One does not do it (climb a high peak) for fame alone. What does one do it for, really ? (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 ? (vi) What were the "symbols of reverence' left by members of the team on Everest ? vii) What, according to the writer, did his experience as Everester teach him     

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(i) The three qualities that played a major role in his climb : En- durance, Persistence and Will-Power.   (ii) Adventure provides physical, emotional and spiritual experience. It is always risky. It results in victory and a  sense of fulfillment. Therefore, it is pleasurable since it changes the adventurer.   (iii) Mount Everest is the highest, the mightiest and has nullified many previous attempts. It takes the last ounce  of one's energy. It is a brutal struggle with rock and ice. The passage up and down is difficult. Its climb gives  one the sense of victory. Therefore, the author found it irresistible on account of its challenges and  difficulties.   (iv) One does not climb a high peak for fame alone. On the other hand, the sense of fulfillment and eternal love  for adventure in man urge a climber to do it.   (v) The emotion is 'humility'.   (vi) The members of the team on the Everest left the following 'symbols of reverence'. The narrator left 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 under a heap of rocks and stones in the snow.   (vii) The experience as an Everester taught the writer to conquer another summit. It is within the mind. It is fearful and unsalable. One must climb it before one aspires to seek fuller knowledge of oneself.