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Question
When did Hillary feel a sense of freedom and well being?
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Solution
Their first partly-full bottle of oxygen got exhausted. They had only one oxygen bottle to cany. With a reduced load of 20-liter bottles, Hillary cut steps down off the South Summit. So, he felt a sense of freedom and well-being.
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Para 19
neighbour Makalu, unexplored and
unclimbed. Far away across the clouds,
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on the horizon. To the west, we could
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