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Who encouraged them and how?

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Who encouraged them and how?

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They were encouraged by laughter and shouts of encouragement from the rest of the patients.

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Chapter 3.1: In Celebration of Being Alive - Exercise [Page 70]

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Samacheer Kalvi English Class 12 TN Board
Chapter 3.1 In Celebration of Being Alive
Exercise | Q 1. i. | Page 70

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Para 4

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
and, as my feet were now warm, I took
over the lead.

Para 5

The soft snow made a route on top
of the ridge both difficult and dangerous,
which sometimes held my weight but often
gave way suddenly. After several hundred
feet, we came to a tiny hollow and found
there the two oxygen bottles left on the
an earlier attempt by Evans and Bourdillon.
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relieved to find that they still contained
several hundred liters of oxygen-enough
to get us down to the South Col if used sparingly

Para 6

I continued making the trail on up
the ridge, leading up for the last 400 feet
to the southern summit. The snow on this
the face was dangerous, but we persisted in
our efforts to beat a trail up it.
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lead. As I was stamping a trail in the deep
snow, a section around me gave way and

Para 7

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clumsy-fingered and slow-moving. So I
quickly replaced my oxygen set

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