Easy to Read Format: The Dream Comes True

From The Tiger of the Snows By Tenzing Norgay, Written in Collaboration with James Ramsey Ullman.

From the south summit from Everest Mountain, we first had to go down a little and then go up, up, up. All the time the danger was that the snow would slip and cause an avalanche.

1. What is the setting of this story?

1. The Andean Mountains.

2. The Everest Mountain. Right

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2. What was the danger all the time?

1. An avalanche.

2. A land slide. Wrong

Anyhow, after each shortstop we kept going, twisting always higher along the ridge between the cornices and the precipices. And at last we came to what might be the last big obstacle below the top. This was a cliff of rock rising straight up out of the ridge and blocking it off.

1. What are cornices and precipices?

1. relief accidents right

2. ornaments

2. A synonym for precipice is:

1. cliff correct

2. rock

3. What was the last obstacle?

1. A river

2. A cliff of rock ok

Here again, I must be honest and say that I do not feel his account, as told in The Conquest of Everest, is wholly accurate because Hillary is my friend. He is a fine climber and fine man, and I am proud to have gone with him to the top of Everest and I could not have don’t it without his help.

1. Who is a fine climber and a fine man?

1. Tenzing Norgay

2. Hillary Ok

2. What wasTenzing proud of?

1. Going alone to the top of Everest.

2. Going with Hillary to the top of Everest. Correct 

There is enough almost level space here for two tents, and I wondered if men will ever camp in this place, so near the summit of the earth in Nepal. Now, we are looking down the far side of the mountain up on Tibet.

1. How many tents could be placed on top of Everest?

1. 1                        b. 3                    c. 2 right

2. In which country were they?

1. In Nepal   right          b. In India          c. In Tibet

1. To which country were they looking at?

1. Nepal                 b. India              c. Tibet right

Finally, Hillary and I signed a statement in which we said, “we reached the summit almost together” and I recognized that it was my friend Hillary the one who reached it first. If it is a discredit to me that I was a step behind Hillary, then I must live with that discredit.

1. Who reached the summit of Everest first?

1. Tenzing.             b. Hillary correct

2. Who said he had to live with the discredit of having reached the summit of Everest in second place?

a. Tenzing.    Right         b. Hillary

Now the truth is told. And I am ready to be judged by it. We stepped up. We were there. The dream had come true…

2. Who said is ready to be judged?

1. Tenzing.  Correct           b. Hillary

3. What dream came true?

1. Having reached the summit of Everest.

2. To have written this story.

4. Illustrate this story.  (You can see it above)

Easy to Read Format for Nicoll Garzón, Step 10.