What does the expression “pitching the highest camp” imply? (a) They reached the summit of the highest mountain in the world.

Question

PASSAGE

We started pitching the highest camp that has ever been made. Everything took five times as long as it would have taken in a place where there was enough air to breathe; but at last we got the tent up, and when we crawled in, it was not too bad. There was only a light wind, and inside it was not too cold for us to take our gloves. At night most climbers take their boots; but I prefer to keep them on. Hillary, on the other hand, took his and * them next to his sleeping bag.

What does the expression “pitching the highest camp” imply?

(a) They reached the summit of the highest mountain in the world.

(b) Those who climbed that far earlier did not pitch any camp.

(c) So far nobody has ever climbed that high.

(d) They were too many climbers and needed to pitch a big camp.

Answer 1

(b) The implication here is that even if anybody else had climbed this far earlier. They had not pitched any camp.

(a) There is no reference to the building of any camp in this option.

(c) It is implied that no camp had been built so high.

(d) There is no mention of the manpower required to pitch the camp in the paragraph.