Sentence examples for high expedition from inspiring English sources

Then he stopped by The High Expedition in Talkeetna, a dispensary that doubles as a museum to famous mountain climber Ray Genet, sampling their product before taking a bush plane to check out the surrounding mountain scenery.

This is another indicator that HAR has no prognostic value for cerebral attenuation during a high altitude expedition.

According to our statistical analysis, parameters characterizing ocular circulation, such as retinal and choroidal blood flow and retinal arterial or venous calibers did not play a valid explanatory role for retinal bleeding during a high altitude expedition.

Because transportation to many high altitude expedition sites has become more accessible, people of all ages who might not otherwise have been exposed to high altitudes are now being exposed to high altitude conditions.

They may not be embarking on a high-profile expedition to Mount Everest, K2 or Mount McKinley, but their climb remains daunting, said Randy Larson, the park's chief ranger.

The rare, high-risk expedition aimed to prevent potential conflict between tribal groups in a vast and remote reserve near Brazil's Peruvian border.

Over the last half-century, Sir Edmund has devoted much of his time to raising money for schools and clinics for the Sherpas, a mountaineering people who are the backbone of any high-altitude expedition in the Himalayas.

They were both aged just 17 when they set out on their first high-altitude expedition – an attempt on Spantik, a 7,032m peak in Pakistan, and made it up to 6,000m before deteriorating weather forced their retreat.

On Friday, Dr. Davidsen, a professor of physics and astronomy, was being remembered as a mulitfaceted person, a musician who could pick up a guitar and lead a crowd through two hours of doo-wop singing and who led high school expeditions to jazz clubs in Manhattan, a fly fisherman and a lover of his Harley-Davidson Fatboy.

Then book a berth on a high-latitude expedition charter yacht.High-latitude sailing involves navigating to the Earth's extreme north and south in dangerous conditions not found in the lower latitudes: freezing temperatures; remote, often-uncharted waters; hazardous floating ice.

When you're on a high-profile expedition like that and you don't make it, it's incredibly disappointing.