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Xia Boyu is a 73-year-old Chinese mountaineer. He successfully climbed to the top of Mount Qomolangma on two artificial legs. Xia was a professional soccer player before he got into the Chinese national ________ team. During his first ________ to climb Qomolangma in 1975, Xia gave his sleeping bag to one of his teammates,________ he could resist (抵抗) the cold. But in the end the extreme conditions on the mountain ________ his legs from the knees down.

At the beginning, Xia was unable to ________ life in a wheelchair and having to say goodbye to his career as a mountain climber. He was confused and ________, but his passion for life was ________ again when he met a foreign medical expert who told him that artificial legs could help him walk, run and even climb again.

Xia made numerous efforts to climb the mountain again. Since his artificial legs cannot give him a ________ for the land while climbing, Xia relies ________ on his trekking poles (登山杖), which he holds in his hands firmly (紧紧地).

“Sometimes the paths are very slippery and I can easily fall if I don’t notice it right away.”

But Xia has never given in. He ________ that after losing his legs, he did not want to be defeated and that he wanted to ________ himself to continue to climb mountains. In 2018, Xia successfully climbed to the top of Mount Qomolangma, becoming the world’s ________ double amputee (被截肢者) to climb to the top.

With his very life, he ________ the distance between humans and Mount Qomolangma and let everyone see the ________ of never giving up. He is a true ________.