All 6 Uses of
notorious
in
Into Thin Air
- After leaving the summit, fifteen minutes of cautious shuffling over a 7,000-foot abyss brought me to the notorious Hillary Step,
Chpt 1 *notorious = well known for something bad
- While on a lantern-slide lecture tour of the United States, it was he who so notoriously quipped, "Because it is there" when an irritating newspaperman demanded to know why he wanted to climb Everest.†
Chpt 2
- By 1984, when I went to Switzerland to climb a notoriously dangerous alpine wall called the Eiger Nordwand, Linda and I had advanced to within millimeters of splitting up, and my climbing layat the core of our troubles.†
Chpt 7
- But despite the Sherpas' laughter (to say nothing of their own notoriously libertine habits), they fundamentally disapproved of sex between unmarried couples on the divine flanks of Sagarmatha.†
Chpt 9
- Which begs a question: as a notoriously assertive New Yorker (she was so adamantine that some Kiwis at Base Camp nicknamed her "Sandy Pit Bull") why didn't she simply unfasten the three-foot tether connecting her to Lopsang, which would have required nothing more than reaching up and unclipping a single carabiner?†
Chpt 12
- Later, shortly after dark, climbers lower on the Northeast Ridge reported seeing two headlamps in the vicinity of 28,300 feet, just above a notoriously problematic cliff known as the Second Step, but none of the three Ladakhis made it back to their tents that night, nor did they make further radio contact.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(notorious) well known for something bad