Q 01/05

What height did the 2020 joint Nepalese-Chinese survey give for Mount Everest?

A) 8,848.86 m

B) 8,844.43 m

C) 8,850.12 m

D) 8,847.60 m

Answer · why

A) 8,848.86 m

The 2020 joint survey put Everest at 8,848.86 m, about 86 cm above the long-used 8,848 m figure from a 1955 survey, by combining GNSS readings at the ...

Q 02/05

What does Sagarmatha, Everest's Nepali name, mean?

A) Holy mother of the world

B) The head in the great blue sky

C) Abode of the eternal snow

D) Roof of the whole world

Answer · why

B) The head in the great blue sky

Sagarmatha, coined by the historian Baburam Acharya in the late 1930s, joins sagar (sky) and matha (head) to mean 'the head in the great blue sky'; Ti...

Q 03/05

Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first documented ascent of Everest in 1953 by which route?

A) The North Ridge

B) The Southeast Ridge

C) The West Ridge

D) The Kangshung Face

Answer · why

B) The Southeast Ridge

Hillary and Tenzing reached the summit on 29 May 1953 by the Southeast Ridge, via the South Col, on John Hunt's British expedition.

Q 04/05

George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared on Everest during a summit attempt on 8 June of which year?

A) 1924

B) 1934

C) 1921

D) 1913

Answer · why

A) 1924

Mallory and Irvine were last seen on 8 June 1924 high on the Northeast Ridge; Mallory's body was found in 1999, and whether the pair reached the top h...

Q 05/05

By May 2024, roughly how many people had died on Mount Everest?

A) 340

B) 120

C) 210

D) 290

Answer · why

A) 340

The toll stood at about 340 by May 2024; over 200 bodies remain on the mountain because retrieving them is too dangerous.