What does the expression “pitching the highest camp” imply ?
aThey reached the summit of the highest mountain in the world.
bThose who climbed that far earlier did not pitch any camp.
cSo far nobody has ever climbed that high.
dThey were too many climbers and needed to pitch a big camp.
AnswerUPSC’s answer is (c).
The climber says they began setting up the highest camp ever made. That means a camp at an altitude where nobody had pitched one before, so no one had been that high, option (c). Option (a) mixes up a camp with the summit, which the passage does not say they had reached. Option (b) is not stated, and option (d) misreads highest as biggest.
Why each option is right or wrong
(a) Wrong. A camp is not the summit; the passage does not say they reached the top.
(b) Wrong. Nothing says earlier climbers pitched no camp.
(c) Right. The highest camp ever made means nobody had been that high before.
(d) Wrong. Highest means highest in altitude, not biggest in size.
Answer: UPSC’s key. Explanation: written by UPSC Grade, not by UPSC.
