Clwb Dringo Christmas Quiz 2010

1 . ‘This is someone with no known history of battling through the rain, wind and sloping bogs of endless Gorm and Coe weekends. Someone from a finishing school in Switzerland not Sutherland.’ Which Everest summiteers was the Angry Corrie magazine writing about?

2. Who devised the Marsden to Edale crossing of the Dark Peak?

3. Who soled the Schmid Route on the Matterhorn in 1973?

4. What happened on Baintha Brakk in 1977?

5. What happened on the third and fourth ascents of Kipling Groove on Gimmer Crag?

6. In 1931 Frank Smythe and Eric Shipton made the first ascent of a Himalyanpeak, the highest climbed to date. What was it?

7. On the 1977 K2 expedition, Chris Bonington refused to hire a porter saying hewas too small to carry a load. This porter then picked up Bonington and ran around the camp with him to prove he was capable. Who was this porter?

8. Who made the first female ascent of Right Wall (E5) on Dinas Cromlech?

9. There are two peaks on Skye named after Englishmen. Which are they andwho were they named after?

10. Who is the 284 th Munro Compleatist?

11. Where and when was Britain’s worst avalanche disaster?

12. Island Peak (61 89m) is a popular trekking peak in Nepal, but what is its local
name?

13. Where would you find Ringing Roger, the Boxing Gloves and the
Madwomen’s Stone?.

14. On which mountain would you find the routes ‘Pilar del Cantabricp’ and ‘Orbayo’?

15.What is Dartmoor’ s highest point

16. Which are the most northerly and southerly of the Munros?

17. If Desperate Dan went climbing in Ennerdale, which would be his favourite climb? ^

18. Where does Caesar Maestri claim to have been on 3 1 st January 1 959?

19. What have the travel firm Lunn Poly and the Oxford University Mountaineering Club got in common?

20. Which mountain range did the Pharaoh, Ptolemy refer to as the ‘Mountains of Moon'?

2 1 . Why would you try to avoid Eriophorum Angustifolium?.

22. Which rock climbing pioneer of the 1930s and 1940s was the son on a Vicar and captained his University netball team?

23. Who was Eric Shipton’ s deputy leader on the 1951 Everest Reconnaissance
Expedition?

24. Who wrote ‘Joe Brown- the hard years’?

25. Whose death was caused by a serac fall after the first ascent of Haramosh 2 in the Karakorum?

26. Who did Don Whillans describe as “a nice guy with two eyes on the main chance”?

27. Who killed the Helyg rat?

28. Who said “ I wish some day to make a route and from the summit let fall drop of water and this is where my route will have gone”

29. Who made up the three climbing partnerships for the televised ascent of the Old Man of Hov in 1967?

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