All 9 Uses
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Into Thin Air
(Edited)
- At 12:50 pm, the clouds parted momentarily, and teammate Noel Odell caught a brief but clear glimpse of Mallory and Irvine high on the peak, approximately five hours behind schedule but "moving deliberately and expeditiously" toward the top.
Chpt 2approximately = about (but not exactly)
- Everest had killed more than 130 people since the British first visited the mountain in 1921--approximately one death for every four climbers who'd reached the summit--and that many of those who died had been far stronger and possessed vastly more high-altitude experience than I.
Chpt 2 *
- Doug, Lou, and I each gave Chhongba one hundred rupees (approximately two dollars) to buy ceremonial katas-white silk scarves to be presented to the rirnpoche-and then we removed our shoes and Chhongba led us to a small, drafty chamber behind the main temple.
Chpt 4
- Prior to the clinic's existence, acute altitude illness killed approximately one or two out of every 500 trekkers who passed through Pheriche.
Chpt 4
- At Base Camp there was approximately half as much oxygen as at sea level; at the summit only a third as much.
Chpt 6
- Sherpas would progressively establish a series of four camps above Base Camp - each approximately 2,000 feet higher than the last - by shuttling cumbersome loads of food, cooking fuel, and oxygen from encampment to encampment until the requisite materiel had been fully stocked at 26,000 feet on the South Col.
Chpt 6
- We therefore needed to produce approximately a dozen gallons of water to meet the needs of eight clients and three guides.
Chpt 11
- As I rushed to join my teammates, I looked down to see a queue of approximately fifty climbers from other expeditions moving up the ropes, too; the first of them were now immediately below me.
Chpt 12
- Because the oxygen systems we were using delivered a lean mix of compressed gas and ambient air, 29,000 feet with gas felt like approximately 26,000 feet without gas.
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(approximate) almost, but not exact; or similar
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)