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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hellepart give Corti when he first contacted him?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) Bread.
(d) Cigarettes.

2. What date did Erich Vanis, Hans Ratay, and Karl Lugmayer arrive at the North Face?
(a) July 25, 1952.
(b) July 15, 1952.
(c) August 5, 1952.
(d) August 15, 1952.

3. What did the friend Nothdurft and Mayer visited before leaving think of Nothdurft's behavior on the mountain?
(a) Nothdurft's behavior seemed only slightly out of character.
(b) Nothdurft's behavior seemed inexplicable.
(c) Nothdurft's behavior seemed normal.
(d) Nothdurft's behavior seemed explicable, considering what Nothdurft told the friend before leaving.

4. What caused Boulaz, Attinger, Vaucher, and Darbellay to turn back?
(a) Attinger was il.
(b) Boulaz was injured.
(c) A lost pack of equipment and supplies.
(d) Bad weather.

5. What cliff on the North Face did Karl Reiss attempt to climb?
(a) A cliff from the Third Ice Field to the Spider.
(b) A cliff from the First Ice Field to the Second Ice Field.
(c) A cliff from the Second Ice Field to the Third Ice Field.
(d) A cliff from the Spider to the summit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What day did the innkeeper in Grindelwald say that Nothdurft and Mayer left for the climb?

2. Where did Erich Vanis, Hans Ratay, and Karl Lugmayer bivouac their first night on the mountain in 1952?

3. Was Nothdurft's diary found?

4. How long did it take Hilti von Allmen and Ueli Hürlimann to ascend the North Face?

5. When did Helmut Salger and Horst Wels climb the North Face?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Derungs and Albrecht threw their extra equipment over the edge of the mountain after their last bivouac?

2. What is the controversy about the photograph of the German climbers on the mountain?

3. Describe the climb of the first women to attempt the North Face.

4. Why were Kurt Diemberger and Wolfgang Stephan criticized, and how does Harrer answer that criticism?

5. What was the weather like during Erich Vanis, Hans Ratay, and Karl Lugmayer's first night on the mountain in 1952?

6. Describe the ascent of Blach and Wallenkamp up the North Face in 1952.

7. Why does Harrer call the climb by Radovan KuchaÅ™ and Zdeno Zibrin cautious?

8. After bivouacking above the Spider, how did Helmuth Drachsler and Walter Gstrein reach the summit?

9. What were Nothdurft and Mayers' families reactions to the tragedy?

10. Describe what was done to lower Alfred Hellepart down the mountain in a rescue attempt.

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