Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of verbs given in the brackets and complete the texts:
1. Once having …..1…….. (grant) this, the question ………..2………. (remain): Why Everest? Because It Is the highest, the mightiest and ………3……… (defy) many previous attempts.
2. ………..1………. (glimpse) a peak in the distance, I get ………….2………… (transport) to another world. I experience a change within myself which can only ……….3…….. (call) mystical.