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Question
Tick the qualities that are required to achieve such a feat.
| passion | reward | determination | physical |
| fame | faith | courage | money |
| drive | vengeance | inspiration | self-satisfaction |
| vision | undying spirit | inner-urge | perseverance |
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Solution
| passion | ✓ | reward | determination | ✓ | physical | ✓ | |
| fame | faith | ✓ | courage | ✓ | money | ||
| drive | ✓ | vengeance | inspiration | ✓ | self-satisfaction | ||
| vision | ✓ | undying spirit | ✓ | inner-urge | ✓ | perseverance | ✓ |
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Tenzing kicked steps in a long
traverse back towards the ridge, and we
reached its crest where it forms a great
snow bump at about 28000 feet. From
here the ridge narrowed to a knife-edge
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feet, we came to a tiny hollow and found
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several hundred liters of oxygen-enough
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