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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Mountain / Rock Climbing : Mountaineering

Introduction:
"Test your knowledge on a variety of Mountaineering topics."


1. What is the second highest summit in the British Isles?
    Ben Macdui
    Braeriach
    Cairngorm
    Snowdon


2. Who is regarded as the father of British rock climbing?
    Norman Collie
    Jack Longland
    O G Jones
    W P Haskett-Smith


3. Which nationality was Sir Edmund Hilary, the conqueror of Everest?
    British
    Australian
    New Zealander
    South African


4. Reinhold Messner was one half of the pair who climbed Everest in 1978 without using artificially supplied oxygen. These were the first men to do so. Who was his partner?
    Answer: (Two words or just surname)


5. Who was the first man to solo climb the North Face of the Eiger, a 13,025 ft. mountain in the Swiss Alps?
    Rheinhold Messner
    Michel Darbellay
    Walter Bonaitti
    Dougal Haston


6. Who was the first British woman to solo climb the North face of the Eiger in the Alps?
    Answer: (Two Words or just surname)


7. Yvon Chouinard invented the French technique method of Ice Climbing.
    True
    False


8. Tower Ridge on Ben Nevis, was first climbed from the top down.
    True
    False


9. Joe Brown and Don Whillans were a famous English climbing partnership from the 1950s and '60s. Which one climbed Cenotaph Corner in the Lanberis Pass, Wales?
    Answer: (Two words or just surname)


10. When rock climbing, when would you use a tuber?
    a running belay
    for growing potatoes
    anchoring a belay
    belaying


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