TextBook Solutions for Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Class 8 English Honeydew Chapter 5 The Summit Within | The School Boy

Standing on Everest, the writer was

• overjoyed

• very sad

• jubilant and sad

The emotion that gripped him was one of 

• victory over hurdles.

• humility and a sense of smallness.

• greatness and self importance.

• joy of discovery.

“The summit of the mind” refers to,

Mark the item (yes) not relevant.

• great intellectual achievements.

• the process of maturing mentally and spiritually.

• overcoming personal ambition for common welfare.

• living in the world of thought and imagination.

• living in the world of thought and imagination.

• a fuller knowledge of oneself

What are the three qualities that played a major role in the author’s climb?

Why is the adventure, which is risky, also pleasurable?

What was it about Mount Everest that the author found irresistible?

One does not do it (climb a high peak) for fame alone. What does one do it for, really?

“He becomes conscious in a special manner of his own smallness in this large universe.” This awareness defines an emotion mentioned in the first paragraph. Which is the emotion?

What were the “symbols of reverence” left by members of the team on Everest?

What, according to the writer, did his experience as an Everester teach him?