Characters
The name of the narrator.
Who is Jon Krakauer?
The location from which Krakauer's expedition began.
What is Base Camp?
This was used to find out the height of Everest in the 1800s.
What is trigonometry?
A long, difficult journey, often by foot.
What is a trek?
How Krakauer reacts when he realizes Everest’s summit is at the same height as his airplane.
What is feeling nervous?
The name of the main guide on Krakauer's expedition.
Who is Rob Hall?
A dangerous feature of a large crack in the ice that a climber could fall into.
What is a crevasse?
When naming Everest, this was ignored.
What are the native names for the Mountain?
A line one must wait in.
What is a queue?
A detail best that shows Rob Hall’s reputation and success as a guide.
What is charging $65,000 per client?
The name of the assistant guide on Rob Hall's team who accidently wastes Krakauer's oxygen.
Who is Andy Harris?
The most dangerous part of Everest.
What is the Death Zone?
The reason why the price to cost Everest increased dramatically in the 1990s.
What is garrulous?
An issue that Krakauer describes Rob Hall facing in Chapter 3.
What is the public criticism of Hall’s role model Sir Edmund Hillary and/or The death of his friend and climbing partner Gary Ball from a cerebral edema?
The name of the inexperienced but motivated Japanese climber on Krakauer's expedition.
Who is Yasuko Namba?
The number of camp "sets" on Everest.
What is five (Base Camp, Camp I, Camp II, Camp III, Camp IV)?
The decade that Everest was officially climbed.
What are the 1950s?
To do something in an obvious way.
What is conspicuously?
How Krakauer describes his fellow climbers compared to typical climbers.
What is less fit / less experienced?
The name of the garrulous American doctor who Krakauer doesn't have a great first impression of on his expedition.
Who is Beck Weathers?
What is 29,000 feet?
Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary.
Marking the beginning of an institution, activity, or period of office.
What is inaugural?
An objective summary of Chapter 3.
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