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Question 1: [7] He also travelled to the South Pole, after which he met Irish President, ________.
Nicolas SarkozyTarja HalonenVáclav KlausMary McAleese

Question 2: "Everything was going well to camp four, and on summit attempt, everything went wrong," said van Rooijen from his hospital bed in the Northern Pakistani town of ________.
SkarduPeshawarGilgitKarachi

Question 3: "Ger died doing what he loved: touching the void" — ________ Pat Falvey writes for the Irish Independent, August 4, 2008
HikingMountaineeringBackpacking (wilderness)Bicycle touring

Question 4: Expedition leader Wilco van Rooijen, a 40-year-old Dutch climber who was airlifted to a military hospital in ________ after surviving the accident, said that poor preparations had contributed to the disaster.
PakistanCyprusPhilippinesMaldives

Question 5: Gerard McDonnell (20 January 1971–2 August 2008) , mountaineer and engineer, was the first Irish person to reach the summit of K2,[1] the second-highest mountain on ________, in August 2008.
NatureSunMoonEarth

Question 6: He lost his life along with ten other mountaineers following an ________ on the descent,[2] in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
SwitzerlandItalyFranceAvalanche

Question 7: McDonnell was born in Kilcornan, ________.
MunsterIrelandCounty KilkennyCounty Limerick

Question 8: [5] A decade before his K2 success, he had moved to Anchorage, ________.
United StatesWashingtonAlaskaNorthwestern United States

Question 9: [6] McDonnell famously pucked a hurley from the summit of ________ in 2003 but was unsuccessful during an earlier attempt on K2 in 2006 when he was hit by a rock and airlifted to hospital.
HimalayasMount EverestKangchenjungaCho Oyu
















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