Q 01/05

After the pair shook hands on Everest's summit, what did an overjoyed Tenzing do next?

A) Knelt and kissed the snow

B) Threw his arms around Hillary

C) Sang a Sherpa victory song

D) Unfurled a prayer scarf

Answer · why

B) Threw his arms around Hillary

Threw his arms around Hillary is how both men told it: they thumped each other on the back until, even on bottled oxygen, they were almost breathless.

Q 02/05

What did Tenzing choose to celebrate each year on the anniversary of reaching Everest's summit?

A) His wedding

B) His birthday

C) His citizenship

D) His first climb

Answer · why

B) His birthday

His birthday: Sherpas kept no birth records, and he knew only from the weather and the crops that he was born in late May, so 29 May, the day he reach...

Q 03/05

By Tenzing's own account, what does the name Tenzing Norgay mean?

A) Fearless climber of high passes

B) Wealthy-fortunate follower of religion

C) Strong-hearted son of the mountain

D) Beloved gift of the snow goddess

Answer · why

B) Wealthy-fortunate follower of religion

Wealthy-fortunate follower of religion was his translation; he got the name as a small boy, after he was judged to be the reincarnation of a rich man ...

Q 04/05

Which US weekly named Tenzing one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century?

A) The New Yorker

B) Newsweek

C) Life

D) Time

Answer · why

D) Time

Time gave the two climbers a joint entry in 1999 and had it written by Jan Morris, the reporter who had sent the first news of the climb to London in ...

Q 05/05

For traces of which two lost climbers did Tenzing and Hillary look around on the summit of Everest?

A) Norton and Somervell

B) Mallory and Irvine

C) Finch and Bruce

D) Wyn-Harris and Wager

Answer · why

B) Mallory and Irvine

Mallory and Irvine had vanished high on the mountain in 1924, so the pair checked for any sign that the summit had been reached 29 years before them, ...