A) A popular brand of winter clothing B) A famous French dessert C) A type of pen D) The highest mountain in the Alps
A) 1900 B) 2000 C) 1600 D) 1786
A) Franz Kafka B) Albert Camus C) Gustave Flaubert D) Victor Hugo
A) 10,000 B) 50,000 C) 5,000 D) 20,000
A) Polar Bear B) Ibex C) Kangaroo D) Tiger
A) Surfing B) Skiing C) Mountaineering D) Hiking
A) Chamonix B) Courchevel C) Val d'Isere D) Meribel
A) Great Peak B) White Mountain C) Beautiful Summit D) Snowy Peak
A) Jon Krakauer B) Heinrich Harrer C) Edmund Hillary D) Maurice Herzog
A) 5,000 meters B) 6,000 meters C) 4,807.3 meters D) 4,500 meters
A) Austria and France B) Switzerland and France C) France and Italy D) Italy and Switzerland
A) Mount Logan B) Kilimanjaro C) Mont Blanc D) Denali
A) The Mont Blanc massif B) The Alps massif C) The Caucasus massif D) The Andes massif
A) Montjoie and Arve B) Courmayeur and Chamonix C) Ferret and Veny D) Aosta Valley and Courmayeur
A) The Goûter Route B) The Aiguille du Midi Route C) The Italian Route D) The Courmayeur Route
A) 11.6 kilometers B) 8 kilometers C) 20 kilometers D) 15 kilometers
A) The Variscan mountain-forming event of the late Palaeozoic period B) The Cretaceous period C) The Alpine orogeny D) The Jurassic period
A) Basalt B) Limestone C) Granite D) Sandstone
A) Geneva B) Saint-Gervais-les-Bains C) Chamonix D) Courmayeur
A) Mountains and Minerals B) Geology of Mont Blanc C) Mineralogy of the Alps D) Statistique minéralogique des environs du Mt-Blanc
A) 50 mineral species B) 100 mineral types C) At least 68 separate mineral species D) 90 mineral types
A) South-easterly B) North-westerly C) East-north-east D) West-south-west
A) The Jurassic period B) The Variscan mountain-forming event C) The later Alpine orogeny D) The Cretaceous period
A) Earthquakes B) Volcanic activity C) Wind erosion D) Glaciation
A) Cfb B) Dfc C) BWh D) Af
A) Temperatures rise as altitude increases. B) Altitude has no effect on temperature. C) Temperatures remain constant with changes in altitude. D) Temperatures drop as altitude increases.
A) Contamines-Montjoie B) Chamonix C) Courmayeur D) Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
A) Grands Mulets Route B) La Traversée C) Mont Blanc du Tacul Path D) Voie Royale
A) Henri Giraud B) Stéphane Brosse C) Marco Evaristti D) Pierre-André Gobet
A) Emelie Forsberg B) Hillary Gerardi C) Dorothy Thompson D) Henriette d'Angeville
A) Fully within France B) Shared equally between France and Italy C) Fully within Italy D) Statut de territoire contesté (disputed territory)
A) A considerable proportion B) None C) Only the summit D) Less than 10%
A) Around 1,100 mm B) Less than 500 mm C) Around 1,020 mm D) Around 3,100 mm
A) Blocked by crevasse fields B) Very high rockfall danger C) Heavy snowfall D) Glacial movements
A) 50 hectares B) Approximately 65 hectares (160 acres) C) 10 hectares (25 acres) D) 100 hectares
A) Set up a hot tub B) Landed paragliders C) Draped the peak with fabric D) Completed an ascent in under 5 hours
A) Marco Evaristti B) Stéphane Brosse C) Kilian Jornet D) Pierre-André Gobet
A) An American airliner B) Air India Flight 245 C) A Swiss airplane D) Air India Flight 101
A) Fifty B) Four C) Twenty D) Seven
A) Permission from the Swiss government. B) A tunnel through the mountain. C) He required a rock foundation less than twelve metres below the ice. D) Access to electricity and water supply.
A) Durier cabin B) Conscrits Hut C) Goûter Hut D) Cosmiques Hut
A) European Union B) Swiss Federal Office of Topography C) NATO D) United Nations
A) Horace-Bénédict de Saussure B) Jean-Laurent Jordaney C) Captain JJ Mieulet D) Pierre Martel
A) Every five years B) Every three years C) Annually D) Every two years
A) 1890 B) 1906 C) 1891 D) 1893
A) Marie Paradis B) Jacques Balmat C) Pierre Martel D) Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
A) Ten B) Eleven C) None D) Seventeen
A) Jean-Luc Prévost B) An unknown Austrian climber C) Patrick Sweeney D) A Hungarian father
A) Moderately challenging B) Technically easy yet arduous C) Very easy D) Extremely difficult
A) It has no unique features. B) It can create its own weather patterns. C) It is unaffected by altitude. D) It mirrors lowland climates exactly.
A) Gonella refuge B) Goûter Hut C) Cosmiques Hut D) Durier cabin
A) Goûter Hut B) Gonella refuge C) Durier cabin D) Cosmiques Hut
A) 2002 B) 2005 C) 2013 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) 50 m (160 ft) north C) 40 m (130 ft) west D) 30 m (100 ft) east
A) -50 °C (-58 °F) in 1965. B) -40 °C (-40 °F) in 1946. C) -30 °C (-22 °F) in 1999. D) -43 °C (-45 °F) during January 1893.
A) Ten B) Fourteen C) Fifteen D) Seventeen
A) After the Napoleonic Wars (1815) B) 1860 C) 1796 D) 1723
A) Dorothy Thompson B) Emelie Forsberg C) Henriette d'Angeville D) Hillary Gerardi
A) Heavy snowfall B) Temperature rise C) Previously unobserved glacial movements D) Rockfall danger
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) Napoleon III B) Charlemagne C) Horace-Bénédict de Saussure D) Victor Amadeus II
A) Michel Paccard B) Pierre Martel C) Jacques Balmat D) Jean-Laurent Jordaney
A) 1,020 mm B) 3,100 mm C) Around 1,100 mm D) 500 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) Fifteen B) Fourteen C) Twenty D) Ten
A) Glaciologist Luc Moreau B) Meteorologist Jane Doe C) Biologist Mark Taylor D) Geologist John Smith |