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UPSC NDA I 2017 General Ability Solved Paper

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I was beginning to tire a little now. I had been cutting steps continuously for two hours, and Tenzing, too, was moving very slowly. As I chipped steps around still another corner, I wondered rather dully just how long we could keep it up. Our original zest had now quite gone and it was turning more into a grim struggle. I then realized that the ridge ahead, instead of still monotonously rising, now dropped sharply away, and far below I could see the North Col and Rongbuk glacier. I looked upwards to see a narrow ridge running up to a snowy summit. A few more whacks of the ice-axe in the firm snow and we stood on top.

[NDA I 2017]

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‘I had been cutting steps continuously for two hours’ suggests that

[NDA I 2017]

the climber was unskilled in the art of making steps
he had to cut the steps out of snow before climbing up which was necessarily a slow process
the slowness was caused by the fact that as soon as he cut the steps they were again covered with snow
he had to work suspended form a ledge

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