Everest 101
This mountain is the tallest in the world above sea level.
What is Mount Everest?
Some climbers use this bottled lifeline to breathe at extreme altitude.
What is supplemental oxygen?
Author of Into Thin Air who probably planned a simple article and got trauma instead.
Who is Jon Krakauer?
The sudden weather event that trapped climbers high on the mountain.
What is a blizzard?
Paying roughly this six-figure-adjacent amount to suffer voluntarily.
What is about $65,000?
(Accept $60–70k)
Everest sits on the border of these two countries.
What are Nepal and Tibet (China)?
Climb high, sleep low — this process helps prevent altitude sickness.
What is acclimatization?
Leader of Adventure Consultants, widely respected and deeply experienced.
Who is Rob Hall?
Climbers were supposed to turn around by this time but many pushed past it.
What is 2:00 PM?
What is the worlds dumbest thing to do as a human
The dangerously thin air above 26,000 feet is known by this dramatic name.
What is the Death Zone?
Name 3 of the peaks that make up the Seven Summits.
What is Mount Everest (Asia), Aconcagua (South America), Denali (North America), Kilimanjaro (Africa), Mount Elbrus (Europe), Vinson Massif (Antarctica), and either Puncak Jaya or Mount Kosciuszko (Australia/Oceania)?
The charismatic guide from Mountain Madness known for his bold personality.
Who is Scott Fischer?
A narrow, knife-edge ridge near the summit that is about as relaxing as it sounds.
What is the Hillary Step?
The psychological condition where reaching the top matters more than staying alive.
What is summit fever?
Most climbers attempt Everest during this month when weather windows are most common.
What is May?
This fixed rope tool keeps climbers from tumbling thousands of feet.
What is a carabiner / ascender / jumar?
Who is Sagarmartha?
She doesn't like the jiggy jiggy on her mountain.
Frozen tissue caused by extreme cold. Everest’s least cute souvenir.
What is frostbite?
This is a life-threatening form of pulmonary edema causing fluid buildup in the lungs, due to rapid ascent to altitudes above 8,000 feet.
What is HAPE?
High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema
Everest grows about this much every year due to tectonic plate movement.
What is a few millimeters (about 4mm)?
Turning around just 300 feet from the summit may hurt your ego, but failing to do so often leads to this mountaineering cliché.
What is 'summit fever'?
Although controversial because he chose to guide without oxygen, this guide made multiple heroic trips into the storm to rescue climbers.
Who is Anatoli Boukreev?
Number of people who died during the 1996 Everest disaster.
What is eight?
The mountain’s nickname that should have been warning enough.
What is “the world’s highest open-air graveyard”?