Mt. Everestin a sentence
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Before I know it, a pile of green beans the size of Mt. Everest is sitting on the table.
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Mt. Everest = the highest mountain peak in the world (29,028 feet high)
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Had I ever harbored the mystical notions about mountains that seem to obsess lawyers and judges, Aunt Alexandra would have been analogous to Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.
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Mount Everest = highest mountain peak in the world
- Why climb this Mount Everest of formalities that makes you feel like a beggar?† (source)
- To look at her, you'd think she had everything, but there's not much solid underneath her Mount Everest hair.† (source)
- And also I like the fact that they are filming in a place which is harder to get to than the top of Mount Everest but is only a few miles away from sea level.† (source)
- I want to climb Mount Everest.† (source)
- He also felt very light, as if he were made of air; thin, dizzying air, at the top of some garbage-strewn Mount Everest.† (source)
- In March 1996, Outside magazine sent me to Nepal to participate in, and write about, a guided ascent of Mount Everest.† (source)
- Like I had frostbite all over my face, and my nose had turned black and fallen off, like those people who climbed Mt. Everest.† (source)
- It was not often that my siblings had true fights, but when they did, they were monster, one-on-one fisticuff affairs, and Helen had picked the Mount Everest of fighters.† (source)
- Who was the first person to climb Mount Everest?† (source)
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- He danced around me like we had just conquered Mount Everest together.† (source)
- He is a "dog" and all dogs are "living creatures"—which are "mortal," unlike the rock of Mount Everest.† (source)
- I could no more imagine my father grilling with a glass of wine in hand than I could imagine him atop Mt. Everest, and somehow the thought made me sad.† (source)
- It's sort of the Mount Everest of dead languages.† (source)
- After conquering Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay in 1954, Hillary returned often to the Khumbu Valley.† (source)
- You try to climb Mount Everest, they'll tie up your ropes.† (source)
- My mother gave me an anorak tested by Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who climbed Mt. Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary, and also an old leather pilot's hat like the kind worn by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who is a hero of mine.† (source)
- Her allure stemmed from her accessibility; like Mt. Everest, she was there, and the men climbed on top of her each time they felt the urge.† (source)
- She climbed a steep, rocky hill that seemed like Mount Everest in her exhausted state.† (source)
- Getting June Nealon to come visit Shay in prison would be like moving Mt. Everest to Columbus, Ohio.† (source)
- The messages were from Finn, asking if I wanted to go skydiving, if I wanted to hunt for gold, if I wanted to ski down Mount Everest.† (source)
- "The Mount Everest syndrome," Bryan commented and earned a rare, spontaneous grin.† (source)
- And these pyramids would have seemed fabulous and incredible, except that one pyramid made the others look like foothills next to Mount Everest.† (source)
- She says, "We can help guide our readers into adulthood like Sherpas on Mount Everest.† (source)
- They will get results, all right, the planners, like a Mount Everest in the middle of the Atlantic and some fractured domes.† (source)
- "Hey, Martin," Fischer bantered think you can summit Mount Everest?"† (source)
- "Mount Everest is God-for me, for everybody," Lopsang solemnly mused ten weeks after the expedition.† (source)
- And thus, shortly before noon on May 29, 1953, did Hillary and Tenzing become the first men to stand atop Mount Everest.† (source)
- But now that I was finally here, actually standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.† (source)
- In 1865, nine years after Sikhdar's computations had been confirmed, Waugh bestowed the name Mount Everest on Peak XV, in honor of Sir George Everest, his predecessor as surveyor general.† (source)
- The South African team maintained a website, as did Mal Duff's International Commercial Despite considerable hoopla about "direct, interactive links between the slopes of Mount Everest and the World Wide Web,' technological limitations prevented direct hookups from Base Camp to the Internet.† (source)
- Calls were 35 expensive-about five dollars a minute-and they didn't always go through, but the fact that my wife could dial a thirteen-digit number in Seattle and speak to me on Mount Everest astounded me.† (source)
- There are Sherpa villages scattered throughout the Himalaya of eastern Nepal, and sizable Sherpa communities can be found in Sikkim and Darjeeling, India, but the heart of Sherpa country is the Khumbu, a handful of valleys draining the southern slopes of Mount Everest-a small, astonishingly rugged region completely devoid of roads, cars, or wheeled vehicles of any kind.† (source)
- Sir Francis Younghusband The Epic of Mount Everest, 1926 At 4:00 P.M. on May 10, around the same time a hurting Doug Hansen arrived on the summit supported by Rob Hall's shoulder, three climbers from the northern Indian province of Ladakh radioed down to their expedition leader that they, too, were on top of Everest.† (source)
- So I came in here to look for some, because I know you always pack like you're going to Mount Everest and won't see civilization for weeks, even for an overnighter.† (source)
- Even if you make it, even if you stubborn and mean and you get to the top of Mount Everest, or you do play and you good, real good—that still ain't enough.† (source)
- Jon Krakauer, at the height of his celebrity after the success of Into Thin Air, his book about the deadly effect commercialization has had on the process of climbing Mount Everest, volunteered to introduce Mortenson at a twenty-five-dollar-a-ticket fundraiser for the Central Asia Institute.† (source)
- I wouldn't trust him farther than you can throw Mount Everest, though.† (source)
- We could very well have done Mount Everest the rate we were doing.† (source)
- How was Mount Everest?† (source)
- And he cited Mount Everest, which had thus far responded to human curiosity with an icy refusal and appeared to want to remain in that state of cold reserve.† (source)
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