Sentence examples for great summit from inspiring English sources

Eastwardly, lonely Drygarn Fawr and its great summit cairns are gauzed in light mist.

That suggests it's not going to be a great summit for the environment.

What they did make can be heard on the two-CD set "The Great Summit: Complete Sessions" (Roulette/Blue Note).

Mountain climbers await this interlude, the Everest weather window, when nature leaves its great summit open for a two-week spell before the monsoons come.

But this news came out in 1865: the British alpinist Edward Whymper had conquered the last great summit of the Alps, the Matterhorn, and he had paid a terrible price -- the lives of several of his team.

The great summit of declinism — the peak from which all subsequent declinism has declined — was established in 1918, in the book that gave decline its good name in publishing: the German historian Oswald Spengler's best-selling, thousand-page work "The Decline of the West".

Here's a rundown of seven great summits for the everyman and woman to conquer.

A team who had been written off and, by their own admission, one not showing the courage to succeed at the highest level, scaled new heights and almost conquered the greatest summit in European rugby.

The great stony summit looks out over Loch Katrine, source of Glasgow's water.

Mr Gates has hosted dinners in China and India, and predicts that India will become second only to America in its high-end philanthropy.One carrot for those who take the pledge will be an invitation to what is expected to be an annual "Great Givers" summit.

Gazing back inland I could see the great white summits of the mountain glinting far above, an astonishing sight amid the coconut palms.