Tuesday 7 December 2010

Question for Dec 6, 2010

The following list is exhaustive, but not ordered. Identify the missing name(s).
  • Dr Hans Meyer and Ludwig Purtscheller
  • Nicholas Clinch et. al.
  • PaweÅ‚ Edmund Strzelecki*
  • Florence Crauford Grove, Frederick Gardner, Horace Walker, Peter Knubel and Ahiya Sottaiev
  • Matthias Zurbriggen
  • Hudson Stuck, Harry Karstens, Walter Harper and Robert Tatum
  • ____________
* Depending on which list you subscribe to, the correct entry here can also be "Heinrich Harrer et. al.".

Hint: The missing entry has the most famous name(s) in this list. Even if you have never heard of any of these names, you have certainly heard of the missing one(s).

3 comments:

Nikhil said...

Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary. 1st Everest climbers. The others are the 1st climbers of the other peaks of the 7 summits.

Got it from Hans Meyer.

Srini Iyer said...

edmund hillary, tenzing norgay.. first people to scale highest asian peak

The Answer said...

The missing names are Tenzing Horgay and Edmund Hillary. The list shows the first recorded people to have climbed the tallest mountains on each of the seven continents. The debate is on whether or not Puncak Jaya in Papua, Indonesia falls in Oceania or not.

Congrats Nikhil and Srinivas Iyer.