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Assuming you're reasonably fit and have some disposable income, I think the biggest obstacle is probably taking time off from your job and leaving your family for two months.†
Chpt 2
Given the disdain I'd expressed for Everest over the years, one might reasonably assume that I declined to go on principle.†
Chpt 2
Assuming we didn't crash en route, the flight would trim some three weeks from the span of Hornbein's trek.†
Chpt 3 *
People unfamiliar with the demography of the Himalaya often assume that all Nepalese are Sherpas when in fact there are no more than 20,000 Sherpas in all of Nepal, a nation the size of North Carolina that has some 20 million residents and more than fifty distinct ethnic groups.†
Chpt 4
If anyone was going to reach the summit from our expedition, I assumed it would be Doug: he was strong, he was driven, and he had already been very high on Everest.†
Chpt 6
In the spring of 1996 he elected not to assume responsibility for the Icefall, but he was happy to pay the leader of a rival commercial * expeditions Scottish Everest veteran named Mal Duff-to take over the job.†
Chpt 6
For instance, Mal Duff-who charged his clients considerably less than the $65,000 fee requested by Hall and Fischer-provided leadership and the essential infrastructure necessary to climb Everest (food, tents, bottled oxygen, fixed ropes, Sherpa support staff, and so on) but did not Purport to act as a guide; the climbers or' his team were assumed to be sufficiently skilled to get themselves safely up Everest and back down again, the Khumbu Icefall, but all of it had been rigged with ladders or ropes or both, rendering the conventional tools and techniques of ice climbing largely superfluous.†
Chpt 6
People who don't climb mountains-the great majority of humankind, that is to say-tend to assume that the sport is a reckless, Dionysian pursuit of ever escalating thrills.†
Chpt 10
Frank's apparent deterioration came as a particular blow: I'd assumed from the beginning that if any members of our team reached the top, Frank-who'd been high on the mountain three times previously and seemed so savvy and strong-would be among them.†
Chpt 11
There would be plenty of time for reflection later, we assumed, after we all had summitted and got back down.†
Chpt 11
Because of their ravaged state when they arrived in camp the previous evening, I'd assumed that both men would decide to throw in the towel.†
Chpt 12
And now Lopsang had just towed Pittman on a short-rope for five or six hours above the South Col, substantially compounding his fatigue and preventing him from assuming his customary role in the lead, establishing the route.†
Chpt 12
Hutchison, conservative by nature, was operating on the assumption that it would be 1:00 Pm.†
Chpt 13
Using this as a benchmark, at the South Summit I'd calculated that my second canister would expire around 2:00 Pm which I'd stupidly assumed would allow plenty of time to reach the summit and return to the South Summit to retrieve my third oxygen bottle.†
Chpt 13
With Mike looking after Yasuko, and both Rob and Andy accomPanying Doug Hansen-the only other client still above us-i assumed the situation was under control.†
Chpt 14
I'd assumed that he'd descended to Camp Four hours earlier.†
Chpt 14
Assuming that the rest of his team would be appearing shortly, Beidleman snapped some photos, bantered with Boukreev, and sat down to wait.†
Chpt 15
"I assumed she was dead," Madsen continues.†
Chpt 15
By then I assumed Yasuko was dead and Beck was a lost cause.†
Chpt 15
When Hall said that Harris was with him up on the South summit-3,000 feet higher than where I said I'd seen him-most people, thanks to my error, wrongly assumed that Hall's statements were merely the incoherent ramblings of an exhausted, severely hypoxic man.†
Chpt 17
* Yet this strategy is predicated on the assumption that everyone will have a continuous supply of bottled oxygen above 24,000 feet.†
Chpt 19
As our despondent group filed slowly away from Camp Four toward the Geneva Spur, I braced myself to make one last visit to Beck, whom I assumed had died in the night.†
Chpt 19
A friend of both Hall's and Fischer's, she was devastated; Paula assumed that after such a horrifying tragedy the IMAX team would automatically fold up their tents and go home.†
Chpt 21

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(1) (assume as in: I assume it's true)
to accept something as true without proof
(2) (assume as in: She assumed power)
beginning to take power or responsibility
(3) (assume as in: She assumed a false identity)
to take on (adopt, wear, strike a pose or appearance of) -- often while pretending or disguising
(4) (assume as in: assumed into heaven)
to take up or receive someone into heaven
(5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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