2. Which of the following is not one of Everest’s many names?
A) Chomolungma
B) Zhumulangma Feng
C) Wilmervalderrama
D) Sagarmatha

3. On the 1956 first ascent of Lhotse, the Swiss became the first to use what in the Himalayas?
A) Drugs for altitude sickness
B) Modern crampons
C) Nylon
D) Chemical hand warmers

4. Who first spied the Southeast Ridge route of K2?
A) British occultist Aleister Crowley
B) Colorado search–and–rescue ace Gabe Walker
C) Nazi Hans Reinerth
D) Reinhold Messner

5. Karakoram pioneer Fanny Bullock Workman once unfurled a banner at 22,000 feet that read:
A) marry me, reinhold
B) votes for women
C) tip your porter
D) we did it

6. At Camp III on their 1954 first ascent of K2, an Italian team recovered and returned American Charlie Houston’s:
A) Femur
B) Engineer’s compass?
C) Ice ax
D) Red umbrella

7. After his solo first ascent of Nanga Parbat, in 1953, Austria’s Hermann Buhl packed all but which one of these phrases into a single purple sentence describing the peak?
A) Mountain of terror
B) Cloud–piercing giant
C) Malefic rise
D) Pitiless domain

8. Which of these statements about George Mallory are true?
A) He encountered a chicken–like bird at 19,000 feet on Ama Dablam in 1921
B) He wrote a biography of 18th–century biographer James Boswell
C) He was openly bisexual and posed for “sensual portraits” by a noted homosexual painter
D) He was afraid of heights

9. In 1954, three Austrians made the first ascent of Cho Oyu without:
A) A tent
B) Bottled oxygen
C) Ropes
D) Permission

10. The lead Sherpa on an expedition is known as:
A) Sirdar
B) Merkin
C) Bulgogi
D) Brah

11. Hillary and Tenzing left all but which atop Everest?
A) A crucifix
B) Yellow snow
C) Some candy
D) The flag of New Zealand

ANSWERS: 1: C; 2: C; 3: B; 4: A; 5: B; 6: D; 7: C; 8: B & C; 9: B; 10: A; 11: D

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Date: August 23, 2008
Location: Waitsfield, VT
Price: $60
Rating: Moderate
No steep climbs required. Cruise past postcard-pretty farms and through the rolling river valleys of Vermont’s Green Mountains.

Date: July 26, 2008
Location: Rockland, ME
Price: $75
Rating: Moderate
Suck in salt air as fishermen bring in their catch on Maine’s rocky coast. After the race enjoy a lobster roll dinner and put on a pair of dry, commemorative lobster socks.

Date: September 7, 2008
Location: Central Park, Manhattan
Price: $75
Rating: Easy
Bike in skyscrapers’ shadows in this ultra-popular urban century, which starts in Manhattan’s Central Park and passes through Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

MIDWEST





Date: October 17-19, 2008
Location: Ellettsville, IN
Price: TBD, probably about $40
Rating: Moderate
Riders have been testing their quads on the hills of Southern Indiana since the 1960s in this weekend-long classic, which includes a brag-worthy more than 20 percent incline on Mount Tabor.

Date: June 1, 2008
Location: Union, IL
Price: $27
Rating: Easy
Ogle the cows along the dairy roads of rural southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. The flat landscape makes this a good pick for beginners.

SOUTH





Date: August 23, 2008
Location: Wichita Falls, TX
Price: $30
Rating: Moderate
Thousand of cycling masochists pleasure in riding through the blistering August heat of North Texas, and more than 800 local medical personnel wait route-side, just in case.