All 15 Uses of
establish
in
Into Thin Air
- A decade later, however, a subsequent ascent of the mountain helped establish the trajectory of my life.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- By then the summit had already been achieved on four occasions, by eleven men, but the West Ridge was considerably more difficult than either of the two previously established routes: the South Col and Southeast Ridge or the North Col and Northeast Ridge.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- Their best hope for getting off the mountain alive, they concluded, was to go over the top and down the well-established Southeast Ridge route, an extremely audacious plan, given the late hour, the unknown terrain, and their rapidly diminishing supply of bottled oxygen.
Chpt 2 (definition 1) *established = known
- It had been established in 1973 after four members of a single Japanese trekking group succumbed to the altitude and died in the vicinity.
Chpt 4 (definition 2) *established = created
- Laura Ziemer-an upbeat American lawyer who, at the time of our visit, was working at the four-room facility with her physician husband, Jim Litch, and another young physician named Larry Silver-emphasized that this alarming death rate hadn't been skewed upward by mountaineering accidents; the victims had been "just ordinary trekkers who never ventured beyond the established trails.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- Rob had intended for us to spend just one day acclimatizing in Lobuje before traveling the final six or seven miles to Base Camp, which our Sherpas had reached some days earlier in order to ready the site for our arrival and begin establishing a route up the lower slopes of Everest itself.
Chpt 4 (definition 2)establishing = creating
- After this season, when my mate Scott has established himself as an Everest guide, he'll have a great advantage over Adventure Consultants simply because he's based in America.
Chpt 6 (definition 2)established = set with a good reputation
- 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. If all went according to Hall's grand plan, our summit assault would be launched from this highest campCamp Four-a month hence.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- The previous winter, as he had done in winters past, Hall had consulted with the leaders of all the expeditions planning to climb Everest in the spring, and together they'd agreed on one team among them who would be responsible for establishing and maintaining a route through the Icefall.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- Woodall had recruited three of South Africa's strongest climbers Andy de Klerk, Andy Hackland, and to form the nucleus of his team: Although Neby's expedition was bi Bedasa's olo" endeavor he had employed eighteen Sherpas to carry his loads, fix ropes for him, establish his camps, and guide him up the mountain.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- By the time Lopsang went to Everest with Fischer in 1996, he'd only been climbing for three years, but in that span he'd participated in no fewer than ten Himalayan expeditions and had established a reputation as a high-altitude mountaineer of the highest caliber.
Chpt 9 (definition 2)established = caused to be created
- In Eastern Europe guides were trained to act more like Sherpas-hauling loads, fixing ropes, establishing the route-and less like caretakers.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- 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 (definition 2)
- First, he relayed a message to me that some spare batteries were stashed in one of the IMAX tents on the Col; by midafternoon I'd found them, allowing Hall's team to re-establish radio contact with the lower camps, Then Breashears offered his expedition's Supply of oxygen-fifty canisters that had been laboriously carried to 26,000 feet-to the ailing climbers and would-be rescuers on the Col. Even though this threatened to put his $5.
Chpt 19 (definition 2)re-establish = restorestandard prefix: The prefix "re-" in re-establish means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
- It has been proposed, for example, that a guide-to-client ratio of one to one be established as the standard on Everest-i.e., each client would climb with his or her own personal guide and remain roped to that guide at all times.
Chpt 21 (definition 2)established = set
Definitions:
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(1) (establish as in: establish that there is a need) show or determine (cause to be recognized or figure out)
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(2) (establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place