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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Camp One: April 16, 1996 - 19,500 Feet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Fischer climb Everest without in order to attract attention to his climbing skills and services?
(a) Boots
(b) Oxygen
(c) Food
(d) Gear

2. Who is described as being from New Zealand, having a full beard, and being gregarious and funny?
(a) Rob Hall
(b) Andy Harris
(c) Doug Hansen
(d) Anatoli Bourkeev

3. What climber actually saved the lives of five other climbers as he tried to ascent to the top of K2?
(a) Schoening
(b) Rob Hall
(c) Scott Fischer
(d) Anatoli Bourkeev

4. Who is critical of the treatment of the Sherpa by Fischer's medical team?
(a) Rob Hall
(b) John Krakauer
(c) Scott Fischer
(d) Mike Groom

5. Who sneaks into Tibet and makes it up to 21,000 feet where he finds a cache of supplies, but dies anyway?
(a) Rufussion
(b) Tenzing
(c) Corgay
(d) Wilson

Short Answer Questions

1. Harris and his wife helped run a clinic at __________ which is on the way to Base Camp.

2. Where is Hall's group first flying to by helicopter before they begin their climb up the mountain?

3. Krakauer considers himself to be _____ to think he has what it takes to climb Everest.

4. In 1852, who takes a complete survey of India in order to find out more about this land that is their colony now?

5. Hall only makes his climbers hike a few miles a day because of the _______________.

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