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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lhotse Face: April 29, 1996 - 23,400 Feet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who stays behind and doesn't climb with the group on this particular day?
(a) Andy Harris
(b) John Krakauer
(c) David Brashears
(d) Doug Hansen

2. What does Krakauer find on a short hike up from Camp Two?
(a) A rogue camp
(b) A kata
(c) A spare oxygen tank
(d) A dead body

3. What is Krakauer's reaction to seeing climbers lined up to get to the summit?
(a) Excited
(b) Bored
(c) Alarmed
(d) Nervous

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

5. What does Krakauer help the Sherpas chop ice for when they get back to camp?
(a) The tents
(b) The meals
(c) The bathrooms
(d) The water supply

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the answer to #93's other main role for Fischer's group?

2. Who is the leader of Krakauer's group with which he is climbing in order to write a story for Outside Magazine?

3. Who is the quiet Australian that is the third guide in Rob Hall's group that is climbing to the summit?

4. Who is the inexperienced climber that made it to the top of Everest with a guide?

5. Where do the climbers who find Wilson's body bury him?

(see the answer key)

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