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Question
What was the profound lesson that Dr. Barnard learnt from the boys?
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Solution
The boys had taught Dr. Barnard the lesson in getting on with the business of living. The business of living in the celebration of being alive.
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neighbour Makalu, unexplored and
unclimbed. Far away across the clouds,
the great bulk of Kanchenjunga loomed
on the horizon. To the west, we could
see the great unexplored ranges of Nepal
stretching off into the distance.
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struggles of those great climbers of the
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