Exploring the Himalayas: A Quiz on the World's Highest Mountain Range Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

historian Maurice Isserman, known for books on the Communist Party USA and the New Left, has refocused on the history of mountaineering in the Himalayas.

retreating glaciers of the Himalayas produce vast and long-lived supraglacial lakes, many kilometres in diameter and scores of metres deep.

famed Swiss cartographer Eduard Imhof lived in a Tibetan monastery while he recorded the height and location of the highest peak outside of the Himalayas, Minya Konka.

early claims by European mountaineers to have set world altitude records in the Himalayas have been disproven by the discovery of Inca artefacts on the summit of Llullaillaco (pictured).

Manaslu (pictured) is the eighth highest mountain in the world, located in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas, in the west-central part of Nepal.

Manimahesh Lake, situated close to the Manimahesh Kailash Peak (pictured) in the Himalayas, has religious significance next to that of Lake Manasarovar in Tibet.

Kalpeshwar is the only temple in the Panch Kedar circuit, a group of five sacred Shiva temples in the Garhwal Himalayas, accessible throughout the year.

Exploring the Himalayas: A Quiz on the World's Highest Mountain Range

1 The 70 km-long ________ at the India-Pakistan border is the second longest glacier in the world outside the polar region.

2 Sir ________ (1919–2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer, the first man on Everest's summit along with Tenzing Norgay.

3 Santosh Yadav is the first woman in the world to climb ________ twice, and the first woman to successfully climb Mt Everest from the Kangshung Face. She first climbed the peak in May 1992, and then did it again in May 1993.

4 Zoji La lies between the vale of Kashmir and the ________ district, and is the only Western entrance to the highlands of Ladakh.

5 ________ - all mountains over 7,200 metres.

6 ________ is a mystical city with various legends associated with it, and it is one of twenty-four Himalayan hidden realms, or beyul, in Vajrayana Buddhism.

7 "Dragon Rider (novel)" is authored by ________ and tells the story of an epic journey that a small boy, a brownie, and a dragon take to the "Rim of Heaven," a place in the Himalayas where dragons reside.

8 In 1934, the first ascent of ________ (South Face) was made, along with 4 ascents of Everest.

9 The Indus begins in Tibet at the confluence of Sengge and Gar rivers and flows southwest through India and then through Pakistan to the ________.

10 Where does the name Himalayas come from?

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