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Into Thin Air
- Looking a moment later, I paused to take another photo, this on the Southeast Ridge, the route we had ascended.†
Chpt 1
- I dreamed of ascending Everest myself one day;
Chpt 2 *ascending = climbing up
- Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, admired more than so-called free soloists: visionaries who ascended in the boldest style imaginable.†
Chpt 2
- Peak of which happen to be very demanding climbs, on each continent would be to climb the second-highest peak on each continent, a couple concept has Pointed out that a considerably more difficult challenge than ascending the highest -he, Morrow, was.†
Chpt 3
- I said no to the assignment only because I thought it would be unbearably frustrating to spend two months in the shadow of Everest without ascending higher than Base Camp.†
Chpt 3
- Andy's palpable hunger for climbing, his unalloyed enthusiasm for the mountains, made me wistful for the period in my own life when climbing was the most important thing imaginable, when I charted the course of my existence in terms of mountains I'd ascended and those I hoped one day to ascend.†
Chpt 3
- Andy's palpable hunger for climbing, his unalloyed enthusiasm for the mountains, made me wistful for the period in my own life when climbing was the most important thing imaginable, when I charted the course of my existence in terms of mountains I'd ascended and those I hoped one day to ascend.†
Chpt 3
- Ascending the stairs to my room I passed a large four-color poster titled "Himalayan Trilogy," depicting Everest, K2, and Lhotse-the planet's highest, second highest, and fourth-highest mountains, respectively Superimposed against the images of these peaks, the poster showed a grinning, bearded man in full alpine regalia.†
Chpt 3
- A caption identified this climber as Rob Hall; the poster, intended to drum up business for Hall's guiding company, Adventure Consultants, commemorated his rather impressive feat of ascending all three peaks during two months in 1994.†
Chpt 3
- It took Bass four years to ascend the Seven summits.†
Chpt 3
- Beyond the bridge, the dirt path abandoned the banks of the Dudh Kosi and zigzagged up the steep canyon wall, ascending through aromatic stands of pine.†
Chpt 4
- Although I'd ascended hundreds of mountains, Everest was so different from anything I'd previously climbed that my powers of imagination were insufficient for the task.†
Chpt 4
- The clinic was funded by a foundation called the Himalayan Rescue Association primarily to treat altitude-related illnesses (although it also offered free treatment to the local Sherpas) and to educate trekkers about the insidious hazards of ascending too high, too fast.†
Chpt 4
- From 22,000 feet to 25,000 feet the standard route ascends a sheer, treacherous ice slope known as the Lhotse Face.†
Chpt 4
- As a safety measure, expeditions always attach a series of ropes to this slope from bottom to top, and climbers are supposed to protect themselves by Clipping a short safety tether to the fixed ropes as they ascend.†
Chpt 4
- Frank was ascending the ropes on the upper Lhotse Face, he said in a troubled voice, "when I looked up and saw a person tumbling down from above, falling head over heels.†
Chpt 4
- Security was achieved not by roping in my safety tether to the fixed line and sliding it up but rather by clipping in the rope as I ascended.†
Chpt 6
- I explained to Linda and anyone else who expressed skepticism about my Himalayan qualifications that I didn't expect to ascend very high on the mountain.†
Chpt 7
- From the moment I agreed to go to Nepal my intention was to ascend every bit as high as my unexceptional legs and lungs would carry me.†
Chpt 7
- From there Wilson started ascending the slopes leading up to the North Col, getting as high as 22,700 feet before a vertical ice cliff proved too much for him and he was forced to retreat back to the site of Shipton's cache.†
Chpt 8
- From the beginpermit* issued by the Nepalese NE sel were on rung he'd said that both Cathy O'Dowd and Deshun Dey only climbers listed on the official permit-at a cost of slopoo a head-are allowed to ascend above Base Camp.†
Chpt 8
- Again I redlined my cardiovascular output rushing to ascend from its threatening shadow, and again dropped to my knees when I arrived on the serac's summit, gasping for air and trembling from the excess of adrenaline fizzing through my veins.†
Chpt 8
- With a great deal of assistance from Lowe, Pittman ascended the fixed ropes to 22,000 feet, but once again she was forced to surrender her attempt before the summit; this time the problem was dangerously unstable snow conditions that forced the whole team to abandon the mountain.†
Chpt 8
- For the next two hours we ascended an incline pitched as gently as a beginner's ski slope, eventually arriving at the bergschrund that delineated the Khumbu Glacier's upper end.
Chpt 8ascended = climbed
- Worrying that I was likely to drop something, I decided to wait until I reached a part of the face that was less steep, where I could stand in balance A jumar (also known as a mechanical ascender) is a wallet-sized device that grips the rope by means of a metal cam.†
Chpt 8
- Essentially ratcheting himself upward, a climber thereby ascends the rope, without hanging from the rope.†
Chpt 8
- A thousand feet up the immense slant of the Lhotse Face, I ascended a faded nylon rope that seemed to go on forever, and the higher I got, the more laggardly I moved.†
Chpt 10
- Not long after Fischer reached Kruse and began the troublesome descent to Base Camp, they encountered Boukreev at the top of the Icefall, ascending alone, and Fischer harshly reprimanded the guide for shirking his responsibilities.†
Chpt 11
- And in the course of his distinguished career he'd formulated a number of unorthodox, very strongly held opinions about how the mountain should be ascended.†
Chpt 11
- In the 1970s, the famed Tyrolean alpinist Reinhold Messner emerged as the leading proponent of gasless climbing, declaring that he would ascend Everest "by fair means" or not at all.†
Chpt 11
- Shortly thereafter he and his longtime partner, the Austrian Peter Habeler, astounded the world climbing community by making good on the boast: at 1:00 PM on May 8, 1978, they ascended to the summit via the South Col and Southeast Ridge route without using supplemental oxygen.†
Chpt 11
- By the time I loaded my backpack and strapped on my crampons, most of the rest of Halls group was already ascending the ropes toward Camp Four.†
Chpt 12
- Moving slowly but steadily, I made a rising leftward traverse across the top of the Lhotse Face, then ascended a prow of shattered black schist called the Geneva Spur.†
Chpt 12
- Although in a few hours we would leave camp as a group, we would ascend as individuals, linked to one another by neither rope nor any deep sense of loyalty.†
Chpt 12
- Twenty-five minutes before midnight, I strapped on my oxygen mask, switched on my headlamp, and ascended into the darkness.†
Chpt 12
- All told, thirty-three climbers departed for the summit in the middle of that night- Although we left the Col as members of three distinct expeditions, our fates were already starting to intertwine-and they would become more and more tightly bound with every meter we ascended.†
Chpt 12
- Ascending through the predawn hours of May 10, those of us at the head of the pack were thus compelled to repeatedly stop and wait in the bone-cracking cold for our slowest members to catch up.†
Chpt 12
- As the first hint of daybreak brightened the eastern horizon, the rocky, terraced terrain we'd been ascending gave way to a broad gully of unconsolidated snow.†
Chpt 12
- Geran Kropp, the Swedish soloist, had ascended to within 350 vertical feet of top on May 3, but he hadn't bothered to put in any ropes at all.†
Chpt 13
- The next morning, severely hungover, he was extremely agitated; before ascending the Icefall he confided to a friend that he'd seen ghosts in the night.†
Chpt 13
- But Lopsang ignored the command, untied from Cotter, and continued ascending to the summit alone.†
Chpt 13
- But it was a slow process, and as he painstakingly ascended toward the crest of the Step, I nervously studied my watch and wondered whether I might run out of oxygen.†
Chpt 13
- The previous afternoon as he was ascending from Camp Three to Camp Four, Beck later confessed to me, "my vision had gotten so bad that I couldn't see more than a few feet.†
Chpt 14
- At 1:45, client Klev Schoening ascended the final rise, pulled out a photo of his wife and children, and commenced a tearful celebration of his arrival on top of the world.†
Chpt 15
- He attached Pittman's mask and regulator to the fresh bottle, and then they ascended the last few meters to the top and joined the celebration in progress.†
Chpt 15
- Although a strong climber might require three hours to ascend 1,000 vertical feet, in this case the distance was over more or less flat terrain, which the group would have been able to cover in perhaps fifteen minutes had they known where the tents were.†
Chpt 15
- Robert Falcon Scott, in "Message to the Public," penned just prior to his death in Antarctica on March 29, 1912, from Scott's Last Expedition Scott Fischer ascended to the summit around 3:40 on the afternoon of May 10 to find his devoted friend and sirdar, Lopsang Jangbu, waiting for him.†
Chpt 17
- Members of a thirty-nine-person expedition organized by the Indo Tibetan Border Police, Tsewang Smanla, Tsewang PaIjor, and Dorje Morup had ascended from the Tibetan side of the peak via the North east Ridge-the route on which George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine had so famously disappeared in 1924.†
Chpt 18
- At 7:15 A.M. they arrived at the base of the Second Step, a deadvertical prow of crumbling schist that is usually ascended by means of an aluminum ladder that had been lashed to the cliff by a Chinese team in 1975.†
Chpt 18
- The most wrenching thing, however, was our shrunken size: three days earlier, when we had ascended this terrain we'd numbered eleven; now there were only six of us.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(ascend as in: ascend the mountain) to move or slope upward -- sometimes figuratively as when climbing the corporate ladder