Exploring First Ascents in Mountaineering Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

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a summit, a spur, a wooden building and an avenue are named after Michel Croz, a mountain guide who died on the first ascent of the Matterhorn (pictured).

after making the first ascent of the remote Mount Lucania, Robert Bates was forced to survive on squirrels and mushrooms during his 156-mile (251 km) trek out of the wilderness.

former Norwegian Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Schjelderup was among the first ascenders of several mountains in Nordland county during 1910, including the 1,392-metre (4,567 ft) Stetind.

Wilfrid Noyce forced a route up to the South Col on the first ascent of Mount Everest by the 1953 British Expedition.

Tom Frost participated in the first ascent of the Salathé Wall in Yosemite Valley in 1961.

Douglas Hadow slipped on the descent after the first ascent of the Matterhorn, dragging Lord Francis Douglas, Charles Hudson and Michel Croz to their deaths.

Lord Francis Douglas fell 4,000 feet (1,200 m) to his death shortly after sharing in the first ascent of the Matterhorn (pictured).

Riccardo Cassin made the first ascent of the Walker Spur of the Grandes Jorasses (pictured) without initially knowing exactly where the mountain was.

Clinton Thomas Dent made eighteen failed attempts to climb the Aiguille du Dru (pictured) before making the first ascent in September 1878.

Exploring First Ascents in Mountaineering

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