Mount Everest has been around for over _____ million years.
What is 60 million years?
100
A type of sickness caused by air thinning as you move up the mountain. Side effects include nausea, headaches, and in severe causes swelling of the brain, fluid in lungs, and death.
What is AMS or acute mountain sickness?
100
A type of Mexican food that has meat, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, wrapped in a hard or soft tortilla.
What is a taco?
100
What is a Sherpa's main job on the mountain?
What is a guide?
100
In 2001, an American climber that was ____ reached the top?
What is blind?
200
This is the most common height of the mountain but is changing at a rate of 3/4 inches per year
What is 29,035 feet?
200
This part of the mountain is at the beginning of the climb and has the highest risk of death.
What is the Khumbu Icefall?
200
A type of Mexican food that has melted cheese between two tortillas? It sometimes has chicken or shrimp in it.
What is a Quesadilla?
200
This fee of $4,000 you have to pay but it can be refunded if you bring all your garbage down off the mountain.
What is a "garbage deposit"?
200
This Japanese man was the oldest person to reach the summit of the mountain at the age of ____.
What is 70 years old?
300
This plate is the plate that rubs up against the Asian plate and makes Mt. Everest 3/4 inch taller each year.
What is Indian tectonic plate?
300
This is a cause of death on Everest that is done by extreme winds and low temperatures.
What is "exposure"?
300
commonly served at Mexican restaurants as an appetizer, and is usually served with salsa.
What is tortilla chips?
300
It costs _____ to climb the mountain(not including gear, plane tickets, crew, and permits).
How much is $60,000?
300
In 2004, who climbed from base camp to the summit in just over 8 hours?
Who is a Sherpa?
400
Everest is sometimes called the ______ because of all of the trash people left behind on the mountain.
What is the "World's highest dump"?
400
You can't spend more than 2 days on this part of the mountain and it is hard to acclimatize at this height which leaves some climbers dead.
What is the "Danger Zone"?
400
This Mexican food is filled with chicken and is wrapped tightly in a tortilla.
What is Taquitos?
400
This country relies on the mountain for their economy
What is Nepal
400
This man came down the mountain on a _____. This device is like a large kite.
What is a para-glider?
500
This is the most common trail on the mountain.
What is the Southeast ridge of Nepal?
500
For some climbers, this process takes longer to work for them than other climbers.
What is "acclimatization"?
500
This type of Mexican food you get the tortillas and the ingredients on different plates. You make them yourself.
What is make your own tacos?
500
Some people say that Everest has at points been crowded with long lines of climbers due to a problem called _____.
What is "carry capacity"?
500
who were the first people to reach the summit of Mt.Everest?