(1) What made the writer say, “Thank God, it’s all over!”?

Question

Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them:

Of all the emotions which surged through me as I stood on the summit of Everest, looking over miles of the panorama below us, the dominant one I think was humility. The physical in me seemed to say, ‘Thank God, it’s all over!” However, instead of being jubilant, there was a tinge of sadness.

Was it because I had already done the ‘ultimate’ in; climbing and there would be nothing higher: to climb and all roads hereafter would lead down? By climbing the summit of Everest you are overwhelmed by a deep sense of joy and thankfulness. It is a joy which lasts a lifetime, The experience changes you completely. The man who has been to the mountains is never the same again.

(1) What made the writer say, “Thank God, it’s all over!”?

(2) Why did the writer feel ‘a tinge of sadness’?

(3) What were the writer’s feelings by climbing the summit of Everest?

(4) What kind of change does a man feel after once having climbed Everest?

Answer 1

1. The physical strain that the writer had till reaching the summit was over. That satisfaction made the writer say, “Thank God, it’s all over!”

2. The writer felt that he had done the ultimate in climbing and then there would be nothing higher to climb and he had a tinge of sadness.

3. By climbing the summit of Everest the writer was overwhelmed by a deep sense of joy and thankfulness.

4. After once having climbed Everest, a man feels himself completely changed. The man who has been to the mountains is never the same again.