The Teams
The name of Krakauer's team, led by Rob Hall.
What is Adventure Consultants?
The journalist on the Adventure Consultants team. He is the author of this book.
Who is Jon Krakauer?
The date that Adventure Consultants and Mountain Madness attempt to summit Everest.
What is May 10th, 1996?
The name of the tallest mountain on Earth (above sea level).
What is Mount Everest?
Harshly critical or expressing censure
What is censorious?
The name of Scott Fischer's team, which reflects his guiding style.
What is Mountain Madness?
He survived being left behind three times and was blind due to eye surgery.
Who is Beck Weathers?
The reason why there were multiple bottlenecks as the climbers were trying to go up the mountain.
What is the lack of fixed ropes being prepared beforehand?
The first two people to officially reach the summit of Mount Everest.
An interruption in the intensity or amount of something.
What is respite?
What is the IMAX Team/David Breashears' team?
She was a New York socialite who struggled getting down the mountain under her own power.
Who is Sandy Hill Pittman?
Where the group of climbers got stuck after the storm intensified.
What is the Col?
The name of the country where Mount Everest is.
What is Nepal?
Overbearing pride or presumption
What is hubris?
A crew of climbers with minimal luck on mountains; they had to be rescued from Mount McKinley a few years back.
He was a postal worker from Seattle who attempted to summit Everest in '95, but was turned back. He reached the summit in '96, but did not make it back down.
Who is Doug Hansen?
Andy Harris reported that there was none of this; however, there was still a supply at the South Summit.
What is oxygen?
The approximate altitude of Mount Everest.
What is 29,028 Feet? (Will accept a range of 100 feet)
What is incessantly?
The team led by Ian Woodall has not assisted the teams in trouble despite being able to help.
What is the South African team?
The New Zealander guide that Krakauer thinks he sees near the Col, but in fact was last seen near the South Summit.
Who is Andy "Harold" Harris?
One most likely fell down the Southwest Face to his death, and while we know that he was most likely at the South Summit, we don't know what happened to the other one.
What are the fates of Doug Hansen and Andy Harris?
The reason why climbers try to reach the summit in early May.
What are the weather patterns of the Jet Stream?
Lacking in or deprived of a power.
What is incapacitated?