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A Nepalese person who serves as a good mountain guide because of his/her climbing stamina and ability to work hard in high altitudes.
Sherpa
What do you call a jacket that is filled with the soft feathers from the underside of a duck or goose?
down jacket
The very top of a tall mountain is called its...
summit
The area close to the summit, where the climbers have to use oxygen to breathe, has a name. What is this area called?
The Death Zone
Describe a tragedy from either the book or from the movie.
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The highest point on the planet Earth
Mount Everest
The camp at the beginning of a climbing expedition where the climbers meet each other and get ready for their journey up the mountain is called
________ _________ .
Base Camp
What happens if someone dies on a climb near the summit of a mountain in the Himalayas?
The body is left on the mountain because it is too much work to bring a dead person back down.
By melting ice
Why didn't some people turn around by 1 pm to go back to Camp Four on the last day of they climb?
They wanted to get to the summit of Mount Everest before they turned around.
In what mountain range does Jon Krakauer's expedition take place?
The Himalayan Mountains (The Himalayas)
What do you call a deep crack in a mountain, very dangerous if a climber falls into it?
a crevasse
What do you call a thick, slow-moving sheet of ice?
glacier
When large amounts of snow and ice start to fall from the top of a mountain, it can be deadly for climbers. What is this called?
avalanche
icefall
Somebody who pays money to participate in a climbing expedition
client
What is Jon Krakauer's profession? or
What does Jon Krakauer do for a living?
writer/journalist
What was the name of the magazine that Jon Krakauer was writing for when he went on the Mount Everest Expedition?
Outside magazine
When a person doesn't get enough water, we call that ________________________.
dehydration
How did the father die in the first scene of the movie we watched (Vertical Limit)?
He told his son to cut the climbing rope so he wouldn't pull them off the mountain.
Mount Everest is found on the border of two countries. What two countries are they?
China (Tibet) and Nepal
What is the capital of Nepal?
Kathmandu
What do you call the process which requires climbers to climb back and forth between camps before going to the summit of a mountain?
acclimatization
An injury to a part of the body caused by exposure to freezing temperatures is called _________________.
frostbite
Name a high mountain in Africa that people can climb without using oxygen.
Mt. Kilimanjaro