Sentence examples for daunting peaks from inspiring English sources
Mr. Sjogren and his wife and business partner, Tina, both 43, have a toilet-paper distributorship in their home country, Sweden, but got into the trek technology business as they ventured to both poles and up Mount Everest and other daunting peaks.
For 19th-century explorers trying to scale the daunting peaks of the Himalayas, it was a kind of alluring El Dorado -- one of the great unmapped places of the world, a place whose very isolation endowed it with a frisson of mystery and allure.
"That's Nanga Parbat," said Mushtaq a little later, pointing across a valley to a daunting peak with snow blowing over it like a wave.
That, Isserlis admits as he prepares to scale the Himalayan peaks of the Cello Suites again, can be a daunting dialogue: "I don't see how people can resist them.
When banks and insurance companies close their books on that day, they must value their huge stock portfolios at current market prices -- a daunting prospect when the Nikkei 225 is 80percentt below its 1989 peak.
At eight miles round trip it seemed less daunting than the 15-mile round-trip hike up Mount Marcy, at 5,344 feet the highest peak.
While these women -- all part of an organization called Ascend -- have their eyes set on the country's highest peak, Mount Noshaq, their ultimate goal is even grander than summiting Afghanistan's most daunting mountain.
But daunting obstacles remain.
But many daunting questions remain.
