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What is the highest mountain in the Alps?
Answer: Mont Blanc
Why: At 4,478 m, the famous Matterhorn is more than 300 m lower than Mont Blanc.
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How much of the air is oxygen on top of Everest?
Answer: About 21%
Why: Oxygen's share holds steady up to about 85 km; falling air pressure is what makes each breath thinner.
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Who reached Nanga Parbat's summit alone in 1953?
Answer: Hermann Buhl
Why: Buhl made the final push without bottled oxygen, only five weeks after Everest's first ascent.
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What do climbers use to cross crevasses in the Khumbu Icefall?
Answer: Aluminium ladders
Why: A Sherpa team known as the icefall doctors lays and repairs the ladders and ropes every season.
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How many mountains on Earth are over 8,000 metres high?
Answer: 14
Why: All 14 stand in Asia: ten in the Himalaya and four in the Karakoram range.
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Which Eiger pioneer wrote Seven Years in Tibet?
Answer: Heinrich Harrer
Why: His Tibet memoir became a 1997 film in which Brad Pitt played Harrer.
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