Into Thin Air -Review

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  1. In India or Pakistan, somebody of high rank in politics or the military.

    2. Your answer:
    Sherpa
    Lama
    Sirdar

  2. A member of people originally from Tibet who live on the southern Himalayan slopes in Nepal and Sikkim.

    3. Your answer:
    Sherpa
    Sirdar
    Parvenus

  3. the writer of a script that is intended to be filmed

    4. Your answer:
    Lama
    Screenwriter
    Theodolite

  4. A person or organization taking advice from an attorney, accountant or other professional person.

    5. Your answer:
    Cognoscenti
    Theodolite
    Lama

  5. An optical instrument consisting of a rotating telecopic sight, used by a surveyor to measure horizontal and vertical angles.

    6. Your answer:
    Serac
    Theodolite
    Icefall

  6. People who have a refined and superior knowledge of a subject especially the arts.

    7. Your answer:
    Cognoscenti
    Lama
    Peripateric

  7. People who have recently become wealthy or risen to a higher position in society but who are still considered as inferior by established wealthy and powerful people.

    8. Your answer:
    Lateral Moraine
    Parvenus
    Ad Hoc

  8. A Tibetan or Monglian Buddhist monk

    9. Your answer:
    Serac
    Belay
    Lama

  9. A waterfall that has frozen solid

    10. Your answer:
    Belay
    Icefall
    Lama

  10. A mound ridge or mass of rocks

    11. Your answer:
    Lateral Moraine
    Serac
    Pervenus

  11. Done or set up solely in response to a perticular situation or problem and without considering wider issues.

    12. Your answer:
    Belay
    'Loquacious
    Ad Hoc

  12. A ridge, pinnacle. or block of ice in the crevasses or slope or a glacier

    13. Your answer:
    Parvenus
    Serac
    Theodolite

  13. Belonging or relating to the school of philosophy founded by Aristotle, who gave lectures while walking about the Lyceum in Athens

    14. Your answer:
    Serac
    Peripatetic
    Belay

  14. To fasten a rope or line to a securing point on a shop or boat

    15. Your answer:
    Lama
    Belay
    Serac

  15. Tending to talk a great deal

    16. Your answer:
    Ad Hoc
    Icefall
    'Loquacious

  16. Narrator and author

    17. Your answer:
    Rob Hall
    Andy Harris
    Jon Krakauer

  17. Head guide of Adventure Consultants and has summated the tallest mountian in each of the 7 continents in a period of only 7 months.

    18. Your answer:
    Andy Harris
    Doug Hansen
    Rob Hall

  18. A New Zelandander who grows closer to Krakauer during the climb.

    19. Your answer:
    Andy Harris
    Beck Weathers
    Doug Hansen

  19. An Australian guide with Adventure Consultants.

    20. Your answer:
    Ang Dorje Sherpa
    Scott Fischer
    Mike Groom

  20. Rob Hall's number 1 sherpa.

    21. Your answer:
    Stuart Hutchinson
    Neal Beidleman
    Ang Dorje Sherpa

  21. A postal worker who climbed Everest one year before but had to turn back just a few hundred feet from the summit.

    22. Your answer:
    Scott Fischer
    Beck Weathers
    Doug Hansen

  22. He is left for dead with Yasuko Namba when their group gets lost on the way down from the mountian.

    23. Your answer:
    Stuart Hutchenson
    Scott Fischer
    Beck Weathers

  23. A Canadian client with Adventure Consultants.

    24. Your answer:
    Mike Groom
    Doug Hansen
    Stuart Hutchinson

  24. The head guide of the Mountian Madness expidition group.

    25. Your answer:
    Scott Fischer
    Mike Groom
    Andy Harris

  25. A world respected climber who had previously summited Everest with no supplimental oxygen.

    26. Your answer:
    Anatoli Boukreev
    Scott Fischer
    Neal Beidleman

  26. A guide with Fischer's service.

    27. Your answer:
    Mike Groom
    Neal Beidleman
    Doug Hansen

  27. Fischer's main sherpa.

    28. Your answer:
    Makalu Gau
    Ang Dorje Sherpa
    Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa

  28. One of the clients with Scott Fischer's guide service and is lost during the storm.

    29. Your answer:
    Tim Madsen
    Ian Woodall
    Sandy Pittman

  29. The leader of the South Aferican expedition.

    30. Your answer:
    Tim Madsen
    Ian Woodall
    Makalu Gau

  30. The leader of the Tiawanese climbing group.

    31. Your answer:
    Makalu Gau
    Sandy Pittman
    Tim Madsen

  31. An employee of NBC who is along on the expedition to dispatch media files.

    32. Your answer:
    Tim Madsen
    Rob Hall
    Sandy Pittman

  32. This means that a climber will resk his or her own life to help another.

    33. Your answer:
    Loyalty Among Teammates
    Trust Among Teammates
    Commercialism on Everest

  33. Each climber is there for him or herself and that it is possible for one climber to trust another too much.

    34. Your answer:
    Questions that Cannot be Answered
    Arrogance: believeing that nature can be tamed
    Solitude and Self-Reliance

  34. Fischer claims that he has built a yellow brick road to the summit.

    35. Your answer:
    Commercialism on Everest
    Arrogance: believing that nature can be tamed
    Trust Among Teammates

  35. Krakauer notes the struggle to reconcile the necessity and the deadliness of a mountain clinber's drive.

    36. Your answer:
    Questions that Cannot be Answered
    Trust Among Teammates
    Drive and Overdrive

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