A) A popular brand of winter clothing B) A type of pen C) The highest mountain in the Alps D) A famous French dessert
A) 1900 B) 1600 C) 2000 D) 1786
A) Gustave Flaubert B) Victor Hugo C) Albert Camus D) Franz Kafka
A) 5,000 B) 20,000 C) 50,000 D) 10,000
A) Tiger B) Kangaroo C) Polar Bear D) Ibex
A) Surfing B) Skiing C) Mountaineering D) Hiking
A) Val d'Isere B) Courchevel C) Chamonix D) Meribel
A) Snowy Peak B) Great Peak C) Beautiful Summit D) White Mountain
A) Heinrich Harrer B) Jon Krakauer C) Maurice Herzog D) Edmund Hillary
A) 4,500 meters B) 5,000 meters C) 4,807.3 meters D) 6,000 meters
A) Italy and Switzerland B) Austria and France C) Switzerland and France D) France and Italy
A) Mont Blanc B) Denali C) Mount Logan D) Kilimanjaro
A) The Alps massif B) The Caucasus massif C) The Mont Blanc massif D) The Andes massif
A) Montjoie and Arve B) Ferret and Veny C) Courmayeur and Chamonix D) Aosta Valley and Courmayeur
A) The Italian Route B) The Goûter Route C) The Aiguille du Midi Route D) The Courmayeur Route
A) 20 kilometers B) 8 kilometers C) 15 kilometers D) 11.6 kilometers
A) The Cretaceous period B) The Variscan mountain-forming event of the late Palaeozoic period C) The Jurassic period D) The Alpine orogeny
A) Granite B) Basalt C) Limestone D) Sandstone
A) Geneva B) Courmayeur C) Saint-Gervais-les-Bains D) Chamonix
A) Mountains and Minerals B) Mineralogy of the Alps C) Geology of Mont Blanc D) Statistique minéralogique des environs du Mt-Blanc
A) 90 mineral types B) At least 68 separate mineral species C) 100 mineral types D) 50 mineral species
A) West-south-west B) South-easterly C) East-north-east D) North-westerly
A) The Jurassic period B) The Cretaceous period C) The later Alpine orogeny D) The Variscan mountain-forming event
A) Glaciation B) Wind erosion C) Volcanic activity D) Earthquakes
A) Cfb B) Dfc C) Af D) BWh
A) Temperatures remain constant with changes in altitude. B) Temperatures drop as altitude increases. C) Temperatures rise as altitude increases. D) Altitude has no effect on temperature.
A) Courmayeur B) Contamines-Montjoie C) Chamonix D) Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
A) La Traversée B) Voie Royale C) Mont Blanc du Tacul Path D) Grands Mulets Route
A) Stéphane Brosse B) Henri Giraud C) Pierre-André Gobet D) Marco Evaristti
A) Emelie Forsberg B) Dorothy Thompson C) Henriette d'Angeville D) Hillary Gerardi
A) Fully within France B) Statut de territoire contesté (disputed territory) C) Fully within Italy D) Shared equally between France and Italy
A) Only the summit B) Less than 10% C) None D) A considerable proportion
A) Around 3,100 mm B) Around 1,020 mm C) Less than 500 mm D) Around 1,100 mm
A) Blocked by crevasse fields B) Glacial movements C) Heavy snowfall D) Very high rockfall danger
A) 100 hectares B) 50 hectares C) Approximately 65 hectares (160 acres) D) 10 hectares (25 acres)
A) Completed an ascent in under 5 hours B) Landed paragliders C) Set up a hot tub D) Draped the peak with fabric
A) Marco Evaristti B) Kilian Jornet C) Pierre-André Gobet D) Stéphane Brosse
A) Air India Flight 245 B) A Swiss airplane C) Air India Flight 101 D) An American airliner
A) Fifty B) Twenty C) Seven D) Four
A) He required a rock foundation less than twelve metres below the ice. B) Permission from the Swiss government. C) A tunnel through the mountain. D) Access to electricity and water supply.
A) Goûter Hut B) Cosmiques Hut C) Conscrits Hut D) Durier cabin
A) NATO B) Swiss Federal Office of Topography C) European Union D) United Nations
A) Captain JJ Mieulet B) Pierre Martel C) Horace-Bénédict de Saussure D) Jean-Laurent Jordaney
A) Every two years B) Every three years C) Annually D) Every five years
A) 1893 B) 1906 C) 1890 D) 1891
A) Jacques Balmat B) Marie Paradis C) Horace-Bénédict de Saussure D) Pierre Martel
A) Seventeen B) Eleven C) Ten D) None
A) Patrick Sweeney B) A Hungarian father C) Jean-Luc Prévost D) An unknown Austrian climber
A) Very easy B) Technically easy yet arduous C) Moderately challenging D) Extremely difficult
A) It has no unique features. B) It mirrors lowland climates exactly. C) It is unaffected by altitude. D) It can create its own weather patterns.
A) Gonella refuge B) Cosmiques Hut C) Goûter Hut D) Durier cabin
A) Cosmiques Hut B) Gonella refuge C) Durier cabin D) Goûter Hut
A) 2013 B) 2002 C) 2005 D) 2003
A) The pilots miscalculated their descent while approaching Geneva Airport. B) Severe weather conditions. C) Mechanical failure during flight. D) Pilot error unrelated to descent.
A) 20 m (65 ft) south B) 40 m (130 ft) west C) 30 m (100 ft) east D) 50 m (160 ft) north
A) -30 °C (-22 °F) in 1999. B) -50 °C (-58 °F) in 1965. C) -40 °C (-40 °F) in 1946. D) -43 °C (-45 °F) during January 1893.
A) Seventeen B) Ten C) Fifteen D) Fourteen
A) After the Napoleonic Wars (1815) B) 1860 C) 1796 D) 1723
A) Henriette d'Angeville B) Dorothy Thompson C) Emelie Forsberg D) Hillary Gerardi
A) Previously unobserved glacial movements B) Heavy snowfall C) Rockfall danger D) Temperature rise
A) An earthquake shook the region. B) Levers attached to the ice started failing by 1906. C) A snowstorm damaged its structure. D) The foundation was not solid.
A) Horace-Bénédict de Saussure B) Charlemagne C) Victor Amadeus II D) Napoleon III
A) Michel Paccard B) Jean-Laurent Jordaney C) Jacques Balmat D) Pierre Martel
A) Around 1,100 mm B) 1,020 mm C) 3,100 mm D) 500 mm
A) An avalanche blocked the tunnel. B) A transport truck caught fire, killing 39 people. C) A structural collapse trapped vehicles. D) A flood submerged the tunnel.
A) Twenty B) Ten C) Fifteen D) Fourteen
A) Meteorologist Jane Doe B) Glaciologist Luc Moreau C) Biologist Mark Taylor D) Geologist John Smith |