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