Exploring Mount Everest: The World's Highest Peak Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

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

Maniam Moorthy, a member of the first team of Malaysians to summit Mount Everest, fell during army training a year later and became a paraplegic.

Sir George Everest, after whom Mount Everest was named, is buried at St Andrew's Church, Hove, despite being born in Wales, dying in London and having no apparent connection with the church or town.

despite his complete lack of mountaineering experience, the English adventurer Maurice Wilson reached an elevation of 22,700 feet (7,450 m) on his doomed solo attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1934.

on a 1922 expedition to Everest, Howard Somervell entertained fellow climbers by reading Shakespeare in the tents.

in 2006 Austrian alpine style mountain climber Christian Stangl went up the northeast ridge route of Everest from Camp III (elev. 6,500 m) to the summit (elev. 8,848 m), alone and without an oxygen tank, in the record time of 16h 42min.

John Percy Farrar recommended George Mallory for inclusion on the 1921 British Reconnaissance Expedition to Mount Everest.

Hugh Ruttledge led the 1933 Mount Everest expedition on which Andrew Irvine's ice axe was discovered.

Israeli Dudu Yifrah raised sewn-together Israeli-Palestinian flags on the summit of Mount Everest, and dedicated his climb to his Palestinian colleague Ali Bushnaq.

geology professor Lawrence Wager was an Arctic explorer and mountaineer who in 1933 reached the highest point yet climbed on Mount Everest.

mountaineer Barry Bishop, a member of the first American team to summit Mount Everest, lost all his toes to frostbite during the ascent.

mountaineer Ger McDonnell, the first Irish person to summit K2, brought a hurley to the summit of Mount Everest in 2003.

Drukair flights between Kathmandu, Nepal and Paro, Bhutan pass close to Mount Everest.

Tenzing Norgay, the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hilary, was once sent to Tengboche Monastery in Tengboche (pictured) to be a monk.

13-year-old Jordan Romero recently became the youngest mountaineer to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Exploring Mount Everest: The World's Highest Peak

1 What is Mount Everest also known as?

2 What mountain range is Mount Everest a part of?

3 As the monsoon season approaches, a change in the ________ at this time pushes it northward, thereby reducing the average wind speeds high on the mountain.

4 Finally, in March 1856 he announced his findings in a letter to his deputy in ________.

5 The mountain was not known and named in ethnic Nepal (that is, the ________ and surrounding areas).

6 How many metres above sea level is Mount Everest?

7 Who of the following is a parent of Edmund Hillary?

8 Where is Mount Everest?

9 How many metres above sea level is Mount Everest?

10 When was Into Thin Air published?

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