It involves climbing ice, rock or steep snow in the mountains, usually in very inhospitable conditions using equipment that includes ice axes for hands and crampons for feet.
"We should realize that we are in a very inhospitable environment," she told teachers in her summer workshop.
One striking aspect of the Inca and pre-Inca is that they often created culture and civilization in very inhospitable places.
And a handful of the many New York mosques scouted by the police demographics unit have in the past proved remarkably hospitable to very inhospitable men, not least those steeped in the forbidding Salafi strain of Sunni Islam.
With the election unfolding against the backdrop of an extraordinary economic crisis, a lack of confidence in government, and two wars, the survey described a very inhospitable environment for any Republican to run for office.
"The Irish Sea can be a very inhospitable place, and you are talking about Atlantic conditions as you go out to the left rather than going up under Ireland and bouncing down the coasts.
Housekeeping is the story of two orphaned sisters and of the people who look after them, in the very inhospitable north-west, in a small town called Fingerbone — a place of floods and extreme weather.
The area is in very inhospitable territory, among the most difficult that the troops in the American-led Afghan coalition have tackled so far, but officials anticipate finding important information, Colonel Pease said.
"There is no denying that the S.E.I.U. is the most innovative union in the nation and has figured out how to organize in a very inhospitable climate," said Janice Fine, a professor of labor relations at Rutgers.
The tools are found in areas that are often very inhospitable now, but which at the time would have been much more conducive to migration.
