Non-Fiction
Terrorist attack against the United States on Twin Towers
What is 9/11?
The location of Mt. Everest
What is Nepal/Tibetan border?
A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose
What is an expedition?
Journalist in the story; main character
(First and last name)
Who is Jon Krakauer?
The place where Jon starts his book in Chapter 1
What is the top/Summit of Mt. Everest?
What is "Titanic'"?
The weather/environment top of Mt. Everest...
What is freezing/snowy/high altitude
involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring
What is arduous?
Socialite from the story who received a lot of backlash
(First and Last Name)
Who is Sandy Pittman?
The village where Jon gets sick because of the gross environment
What is the Lobuje Village
Surprise attack on the United States by Japanese kamikaze and bombs--December 7th, 1941
What is Pearl Harbor?
Specific shoes you need to climb Mt. Everest
What are crampons?
Natives of the Himalayan who are renowned for their skill in mountaineering
What is a sherpa?
Both of the guides leading Jon's team up the mountain
(First and last names)
Who is Rob Hall and Andy Harris?
The place between Basecamp and Camp One known for being scary to climb due to random pieces of ice falling, avalanches, and having to maneuver through ropes and ladders to cross
What is the Khumbu Glacier?
August of 1945--Two bombs are dropped in Japan to end WWII.
What is Nagasaki/ Hiroshima/ Atomic Bomb?
The process of slowly climbing up and down between Camp 1-4 in order to get familiar with the high altitude
What is acclimatization climbs?
a condition in which there is an inadequate supply of oxygen to the body's tissues
What is hypoxic?
The leader of the Mountain Madness expedition
(First and last name)
Who is Scott Fischer?
The thing that was particularly holding up the way for people to make it to the summit which contributed to so many people losing precious time on the way to the top
1942-1946--Japanese Americans are relocated in order to "protect" them
What is the Japanese Internment Camps?
Attained by chipping ice off of the mountain to melt
What is drinking water?
A peak on Mt. Everest where people normally exchange their oxygen tanks
What is the south summit?
The character that was supposedly left for dead but returned and needed to have his hands amputated
Who was Beck Weathers?
Rob Hall's last words that they ever heard through the radio.
What is "I love you."