For a fee, guided ascents are on offer for most of the world's most prominent peaks.
For the Sherpas who make the guided ascents possible, however, to quit now, after only a few weeks' wages, will be an even greater economic sacrifice, relatively speaking.
Since commercially guided ascents began in the early 1990's, the dream of standing on top of the highest mountain has become accessible to anyone, even relative novices, so long as they are fit and can pay individual guide fees as high as $65,000.
Speaking on his own behalf from inside the defendant's cage, he reverted to the dispassionate and steely certitude that had guided his ascent through the ranks of Russia's scrappy business world.
Salazar has been widely credited with resuscitating the career of Alan Webb, a twenty-seven-year-old prodigy miler, and with guiding the ascent of two female American record holders, Kara Goucher and Amy Yoder Begley.
I had just come down the steep slopes of Sicily's volcano-island of Stromboli, having been up as far as is permitted without joining one of the large guided groups that make evening ascents to the three craters.
Its theme, reminiscent of Dante's Divine Comedy, is the ascent of the poet, guided by the great 13th-century Persian mystic Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, through all the realms of thought and experience to the final encounter.
Gordon Janow, the director of programs for the Washington-based guiding outfit Alpine Ascents International, said from Seattle that his team had come through the avalanche unscathed.
In the simulation study, MLR and PCR were used in combination with reverse elimination method tabu search (TS) which is a greedy and effective variable selection algorithm that is guided by the principle of "steepest descent, mildest ascent".
