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A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest Name ___________________ Date _____ Class _____ South Asia Primary Source Reading A Interpreting the Source Reader's Dictionary Jamling Tenzing Norgay is a Sherpa, as was panorama: a complete, unobstructed view his father and many relatives before him. in all directions Sherpas are Tibetans who act as guides for animated: having exaggerated movements mountain climbers. Norgay was the leader filled with excitement of a 1996 climbing expedition on Mount summit: the very top Everest, with a crew from IMAX. While on obelisk: a four-sided pillar that tapers at this difficult and dangerous journey, Norgay the top learned about himself and about the bravery of his father, who with Sir Edmund Hillary, Guided Reading was the first man to reach the Everest summit In this passage, Jamling Norgay has suc­ 1 in 1953. cessfully guided the IMAX expedition to the Everest summit. He takes a moment to reflect on his accomplishment. Note what he sees and what the climb meant to him, and then answer the questions that follow. From Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest I could go no higher. Suddenly I was look­ It was clear in all directions, from the Tibetan ing down on the brown ridges and rolling plateau in the north to the pastel foothills of plains of Tibet. I caught my breath, but the pan­ the south, merging with the Gangetic plain of orama before me only seemed to take it away. India. From this perch I could see the white and David [Breashears, leader of the expedition for brown obelisk of Makalu to the southeast, Lho­ IMAX] stood some feet from me, waving his tse and Lhotse Shar directly to the south, Cho hand to say, "Hey, over here." Dorje, Thillen, Oyu nearby in the west, Manaslu, Annapuma, and Araceli were there also, smiling and ani­ and Dhaulagiri in the distance to the west, and mated. I went over to join them. Others of our Kangchenjunga eighty miles to the east. With team were approaching the summit, not far Everest, here were nine of the world's ten high­ behind. est peaks. If not for the curvature of the earth and a bit of haze, I probably could have seen "Hey, Jam, you made it," David said even more of the Great Himalayan Range. It hoarsely. We hugged. was an unusual sensation to be looking down­ ward at the Himalayan giants that I had spent "Thanks, David, for this opportunity," I told my life looking up at. him. Then I cried briefly. I looked at my watch A.M. and it was only 11:30 We were ahead of Source: Jamling Tenzing Norgay. Touching My Father's Soul: schedule, despite the time we had spent film­ A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest. New York. Harper­ ing and waiting for the camera. Collins Publishers, 2001. 27 Name __________________ Date ____ Class _____ Primary Source Reading A continued fj Document-Based Questions Directions: Use information from the primary source to answer the questions below. 1. Describing How did Jamling Norgay feel when he arrived at the summit of Everest? . 2. Identifying Who was the leader of the expedition, and how did he feel about their arrival at the summit? 3. Listing Name 9 of the 10 highest peaks in the world. 4. Describing What is the physical landscape like to the north and south of the Himalaya? 28 .
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