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