Sentence examples for approached the summit of from inspiring English sources

One day, as we approached the summit of the Daubenhorn, he turned to me.

KETCHUM, Idaho — SIXTY years ago this week, as Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay approached the summit of the world's highest mountain, they were stopped by a 40-foot wall of rock and ice.

The condition of Oates's feet became an increasing anxiety, as the group approached the summit of the Beardmore Glacier and prepared for the descent to the Barrier.

Two of the most widely acclaimed songs of they decade, they approached the summits of the chart during a time when R&B and ballads dominated the charts, churning out hit after hit by Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion.

We are approaching the summit of the mid-Victorian novel.

Nowadays it is akin to approaching the summit of Everest on a pogo stick.

Alan Ayckbourn was directing a cast of mostly unknown actors, with the exception of Michael Gambon, then approaching the summit of his powers.

"Much better than Barney Marsh – sounds like a dumb Flintstones character!" 3.10pm: Approaching the summit of the Col d'Ausbisque, Jeremy Roy has opened a gap of 46 seconds on French rider David Moncoutie, who is in turn 24 seconds ahead of Thor Hushovd.

The trail eventually narrowed to an implausibly steep and vertiginous staircase clinging to a spine of rock; we approached the summit temple through a colonnade of six foot-tall tridents.

There are several reasons the Clinton administration approached the summit meeting with a sense of urgency.

Excavation revealed at least two phases of construction and the pyramidal platform had a single stair that divided into two as it approached the summit shrine.