Aneto - Quiz
  • 1. What is the altitude of the Renclusa Refuge?
A) 2,410 m
B) 2,104 m
C) 2,140 m
D) 2,500 m
  • 2. What is the name of the rocky passage near the summit?
A) Bridge of Pyrenees
B) Bridge of Maladeta
C) Bridge of Mohammed
D) Bridge of Tchihatcheff
  • 3. How long is the typical ascent of Aneto?
A) 8 hours
B) 12 hours
C) 24 hours
D) 4 hours
  • 4. Who was the Russian officer that led the first ascent?
A) Henry Spont
B) Albert de Franqueville
C) Pierre Sanio de Luz
D) Platon de Tchihatcheff
  • 5. On what date did the first successful ascent occur?
A) 18 July 1842
B) 20 July 1842
C) 18 June 1842
D) 24 July 1842
  • 6. What did the group leave at the summit after the first ascent?
A) A cairn and a bottle with names
B) A bronze plaque
C) A wooden cross
D) A flag and a map
  • 7. Which massif is located to the north-west of Aneto?
A) Maladeta
B) Vallibierna
C) Luchon
D) Aragon
  • 8. Who named the Bridge of Mohammed?
A) Henry Spont
B) Albert de Franqueville
C) Pierre Redonnet
D) Platon de Tchihatcheff
  • 9. Why did the first group spend a night in a cabin near the Vallibierna valley?
A) They lost their way
B) They wanted to rest before the summit
C) They were waiting for supplies
D) The weather turned bad
  • 10. What is the primary motivation for people staying at the Renclusa Refuge?
A) To study the glacier
B) To climb Aneto
C) To photograph the Maladeta massif
D) To traverse to the Alto Aragon region
  • 11. What did the author Henry Spont write about?
A) The architecture of mountain refuges
B) His experience climbing Aneto
C) The history of Russian mountaineering
D) The geology of the Pyrenees
  • 12. What did the first group of climbers fear when they decided to use the glacier?
A) Rockfalls
B) Avalanches
C) High winds
D) Crevasses
  • 13. What profession was Albert de Franqueville?
A) Writer
B) Officer
C) Botanist
D) Guide
  • 14. What is the condition of the blocks on the Bridge of Mohammed?
A) Loose and crumbling
B) Ice-covered and slippery
C) Sharp and vertical
D) Large and stable
  • 15. How many days after the first ascent did Tchihatcheff perform a second ascent?
A) Two days later
B) Four days later
C) The next day
D) One week later
  • 16. In what century did the Maladeta peak earn the greatest interest from climbers?
A) Late 17th century
B) Early 18th century
C) Late 19th century
D) Early 19th century
  • 17. Who reached the top of the Maladeta in 1817?
A) An unnamed mountaineer
B) Schmidt Endell
C) Friedrich von Parrot
D) Luchon Barrau
  • 18. Which mountain was considered the highest in the Pyrenees before 1817?
A) Monte Perdido
B) Aneto
C) Pico Maldito
D) Maladeta
  • 19. What happened to Luchon Barrau on the Maladeta?
A) He fell into a crack in the ice
B) He disappeared in a blizzard
C) He was struck by lightning
D) He reached the summit
  • 20. Which of these is explicitly mentioned as a neighbour of Aneto?
A) Pico del Medio
B) Monte Perdido
C) Vignemale
D) Posets
  • 21. Why did Maladeta receive more initial attention than Aneto?
A) It has the easiest climbing route
B) It is closer to French cities
C) It appears in the foreground from the valley entrance
D) It is the tallest peak
  • 22. What is the height of Aneto in metres?
A) 3,404
B) 3,604
C) 3,204
D) 3,104
  • 23. In which Spanish province is Aneto located?
A) Huesca
B) Teruel
C) Navarre
D) Zaragoza
  • 24. Aneto is the highest mountain in which mountain range?
A) Pyrenees
B) Cantabrian Mountains
C) Sierra Nevada
D) Alps
  • 25. In which natural park is Aneto located?
A) Pyrenees National Park
B) Benasque Valley Park
C) Posets-Maladeta
D) Ordesa and Monte Perdido
  • 26. How far is Aneto from the France–Spain border?
A) 10 kilometres
B) 15 kilometres
C) 2 kilometres
D) 6 kilometres
  • 27. What was the size of Aneto's glacier in 1981?
A) 79.6 ha
B) 106.7 ha
C) 200 ha
D) 50.0 ha
  • 28. According to estimates, when might the Aneto glacier disappear?
A) Around 2030
B) Around 2100
C) It will never disappear
D) Around 2050
  • 29. What was the size of the glacier in 2020?
A) 106.7 ha
B) 69.3 ha
C) 48.1 ha
D) 50.0 ha
  • 30. What name did local shepherds and hunters originally use for the mountain?
A) Aneto
B) Malheta or Malahita
C) Punta de France
D) Netou
  • 31. Who was responsible for establishing 'Aneto' as the official toponym by 1898?
A) Louis Ramond de Carbonnières
B) Jean Daniel François Schrader
C) Émile Belloc
D) The Spanish government
  • 32. What is the ranking of Aneto in terms of height in Spain?
A) Second-highest
B) Fifth-highest
C) Third-highest
D) Highest
  • 33. How much thickness did the glacier lose between 2011 and 2020?
A) 2.5 metres
B) 10.0 metres
C) 8.5 metres
D) 5.0 metres
  • 34. What is the municipality where Aneto is located?
A) Benasque
B) Huesca
C) Maladeta
D) Aragon
  • 35. In which country does Aneto entirely lie?
A) Portugal
B) Andorra
C) France
D) Spain
  • 36. Aneto occupies the eastern end of which massif?
A) Pyrenees Massif
B) Coronas Massif
C) Malditos Massif
D) Maladeta Massif
  • 37. Which river originates in the valley to the north of Aneto?
A) Ésera
B) Cinca
C) Garonne
D) Ebro
  • 38. The water that resurfaces from the Forau de Aigualluts flows into which river?
A) Ebro
B) Ésera
C) Cinca
D) Garonne
  • 39. How many glaciers remain in the Pyrenees today?
A) Eleven
B) Fifty
C) Five
D) Twenty
  • 40. How many hectares of glacier surface does the Aneto-Maladeta massif sustain?
A) 50 hectares
B) 300 hectares
C) 200 hectares
D) 116 hectares
  • 41. Which glacier is found on the north-east side alongside the Las Tempestades?
A) Barrancos
B) Maladetas
C) Cregüella
D) Aneto
  • 42. On what date was the first winter ascent of Aneto achieved?
A) 1 March 1887
B) 1 March 1878
C) 25 August 1878
D) 19 August 2020
  • 43. On which day of his Pyrenees crossing did Louis-Philippe Loncke reach the summit of Aneto?
A) Day 19
B) Day 1
C) Day 30
D) Day 25
  • 44. What has replaced farming activities in the Aneto massif?
A) Industrial logging
B) Residential development
C) Tourism
D) Mining
  • 45. Which plant species is mentioned as being found at 2,800 metres in the Upper Alpine layer?
A) Androsace alpina
B) Silene acaulis
C) Sphagnum moss
D) Alpine fern
  • 46. What type of vegetation is totally absent from the Upper Alpine layer?
A) Mosses
B) Lichens
C) Succulents
D) Woody vegetation
  • 47. What starting point did Louis-Philippe Loncke use for his ascent?
A) The base of the glacier
B) Atlantic ocean
C) Mediterranean sea
D) Bordeaux city
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