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Test Your Peak Knowledge with Our Mountain Trivia Challenge!

Test Your Peak Knowledge with Our Mountain Trivia Challenge!

Which mountain’s name means “Great Mountain”?

Mount Logan

Denali

Mount Everest

Aconcagua

Denali, formerly known as Mount McKinley, means “Great One” or “High One” in the native Athabaskan language.

Which mountain is famous for its almost symmetrical cone?

Mount Rainier

Mount Fuji

Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount St. Helens

Mount Fuji, known for its beautiful and nearly symmetrical volcanic cone, is a cultural icon of Japan and a popular subject in art and photography.

Which mountain is considered the highest volcano?

Mount Fuji

Mount Kilimanjaro

Ojos del Salado

Mount Vesuvius

Ojos del Salado, located on the Argentina-Chile border, is the highest volcano in the world at about 6,893 meters (22,615 feet).

Which mountain is known for its treacherous north face?

The Eiger

Mount Fuji

Mount Cook

Denali

The Eiger, particularly its north face, is famously dangerous due to its extreme climb difficulty and has claimed numerous lives over the decades.

Where is the highest peak in Antarctica?

Mount Vinson

Mount Erebus

Mount Sidley

Mount Terror

Mount Vinson is the highest peak in Antarctica, reaching about 4,892 meters (16,050 feet).

Which peak is nicknamed “The Matterhorn of the Himalayas”?

Ama Dablam

Mount Everest

Kanchenjunga

Lhotse

Ama Dablam is often referred to as “The Matterhorn of the Himalayas” due to its striking resemblance and steep pyramidal shape.

What is the highest peak in South America?

Mount Fitz Roy

Aconcagua

Mount Roraima

Nevado Sajama

Aconcagua, standing at approximately 6,961 meters (22,838 feet), is the highest mountain outside of Asia, located in the Andes mountain range.

Which mountain has the nickname “The Ogre”?

Broad Peak

Baintha Brakk

Mount Godwin-Austen

Nanga Parbat

Baintha Brakk, known as “The Ogre,” is notorious for its technical difficulty and was first summited in 1977.

Which mountain is known as “Mother’s Necklace”?

Mount Everest

Annapurna

Ama Dablam

Kangchenjunga

Ama Dablam is also referred to as “Mother’s Necklace” because of the long ridges on each side like the arms of a mother (ama) protecting her child, and the hanging glacier thought of as the dablam, the traditional double-pendant containing pictures of the gods, worn by Sherpa women.

Which peak is known as the ‘Mountain of Spirits’?

Mount Fuji

Mount Everest

Denali

Mount Kilimanjaro

Denali, or Mount McKinley, is often referred to as the ‘Mountain of Spirits’ by the indigenous Koyukon people.

Which mountain is known as the ‘Savage Mountain’?

Lhotse

Mount McKinley

K2

Annapurna

K2 is often called the ‘Savage Mountain’ due to its extreme difficulty of ascent and one of the highest fatality rates among the eight-thousanders for those who climb it.

What was Sir Edmund Hillary known for?

First to climb Mount McKinley

First ascent of Mount Everest

Discovering the South Pole

Solo climb of K2

Sir Edmund Hillary, along with Tenzing Norgay, made the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953.

What is the highest peak in Australia?

Mount Kosciuszko

Mount Bogong

Mount Ossa

Mount Zeil

Mount Kosciuszko is the highest mountain in Australia at 2,228 meters (7,310 feet) and is relatively easy to climb.

What is the highest mountain in the world?

Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Everest

K2

Mount Elbrus

Mount Everest, at approximately 8,848 meters (29,029 feet) above sea level, is the highest mountain in the world, located in the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

What is the second-highest mountain in the world?

Mount Everest

K2

Kangchenjunga

Lhotse

K2, with an elevation of about 8,611 meters (28,251 feet), is the second-highest mountain on Earth, located on the China-Pakistan border.

What is the tallest mountain in North America?

Mount Logan

Mount McKinley (Denali)

Mount Saint Elias

Mount Foraker

Mount McKinley, also known as Denali, stands at 6,190 meters (20,310 feet) and is the highest peak in North America.

Which mountain is the highest in Europe?

Mont Blanc

Mount Elbrus

Matterhorn

Mount Etna

Mount Elbrus, part of the Caucasus Mountains in Southern Russia, is the highest mountain in Europe, standing at about 5,642 meters (18,510 feet).

Which mountain has a natural feature called the ‘Hillary Step’?

Mount Everest

K2

Mount Rainier

Annapurna

The ‘Hillary Step’ was a nearly vertical rock face with a height of around 12 meters (39 feet) just below the summit of Mount Everest, though it was altered by the 2015 earthquake in Nepal.

What mountain has the most prominent peak on Earth?

Mount Everest

Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount McKinley

Chimborazo

Chimborazo has the furthest point from the Earth’s center due to the equatorial bulge, making it the most prominent peak in terms of its summit’s distance from the center of the Earth.

What is the highest peak in the Alps?

Mont Blanc

Matterhorn

Jungfrau

Dufourspitze

Mont Blanc is the highest peak in the Alps and Western Europe, standing at 4,808 meters (15,774 feet).

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