In the early afternoon, having completed his preparations at the base camp of his presidency, Obama began the long, hard ascent that lies before him.
True, at the matinee a horn cracked briefly during a hard ascent in the Act II wedding scene at Friar Laurence's cell, and yet that was one of many passages where you couldn't miss the proud, affectionate and detailed phrasing of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra.
For reference, the hardest ascent on the two Yorkshire stages, Holme Moss, is only a Cat 2 climb.
It was a harder ascent than the team had anticipated, made much longer by the need to take detours, and by the deep, soft snow.
If Ashima Shiraishi can already scale the hardest ascents in existence at the age of fourteen, what else is possible?
Awaiting the riders on Saturday is one of the hardest ascents in cycling, Mont Ventoux, where Stage 20 will culminate.
On the long, tough ascent to the Corrieyairack Pass, much of it pushing the steeds amid patches of thick snow, we concluded that the lighter, hard-tail bikes were ideal for a multi-day adventure in Scotland.
Fraenkel likens the industry's hard-fought ascent to walking in the Lake District: "You see a summit up ahead and you reach it thinking maybe that's the top, and then you look and there's another one, 300 metres further on, and then another one, and then another one".
Evans and his teammates went ahead on the downhill during the second and hardest climb, but Wiggins reeled him in on the next ascent.
In an industry where even the biggest players have been hit hard by the ascent of the low-cost carriers, Monarch had somehow hung around, serving full meals on ageing planes with claims of superior service like a throwback to the 1970s – a Black Forest gateau of aviation.
It is found that for submersible housing 75 kWh energy storage batteries, the probability of failure of the hard tank buoyancy ascent function with lead acid batteries configured for 300 V terminal voltages and non-redundant hydraulic configuration is 37.74%.
