Sentences with phrase «summit attempt»
The phrase "summit attempt" means trying to reach the highest point or peak of a mountain or any other elevated place. Full definition
For many years I've been enamored of recantations of Everest summit attempts.
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«[Everest] was harder than I thought because we had such an emotionally and physically trying experience on my first summit attempt,» says Leduc.
We need to think about and incorporate this set of current environmental variables into planning our ascent / descent well before our current summit attempt is over.
European leaders have admitted defeat after a two - day summit attempting to secure agreement on the EU budget ended in failure.
A panel at the recent Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy summit attempted to answer that question.
Last week, he abandoned his only 2012 summit attempt with a client and rescued an American climber instead.
In his address, Sen. Inhofe promised the assembled deniers that the United Nations COP21 summit would fail as prior international summit attempts had.
Leduc reached the top of the world on May 26 on her second summit attempt.
For a year ago, whilst descending from another successful Everest summit attempt, he, along with some fellow sherpas, nearly came to a very sticky end, when the famed Khumbu icefall turned to slush and collapsed.
Leduc would later tweet that her oxygen regulator had frozen on the way down from her first summit attempt, forcing her to climb back down to Camp 4, located at 8,000 m, without oxygen for about three hours.
In all probability, there would be no summit attempt at all.
Although it can literally take a year to plan for and coordinate an Everest summit attempt, often it is success that can be measured in hours in the descent that determines survival.
We are not yet ready to call off the summit attempt and turn back in the current cycle, but we know risks are increasing.
We were caught in a whiteout and were forced to abandon our summit attempt.
On the first night you'll stay in a refugio or camp at «Campo Argentino» at an altitude of 5,200 meters before rising impossibly early, between midnight and 3 am to make a summit attempt the next day.
While climbing, Leduc would pass by some of the climbers who had perished during their summit attempt on May 19.