The justifications for an Everest trip had to be extraordinarily robust – after all, the mortality rate for a summit expedition is a staggering one in twenty, considerably higher than would be acceptable in nearly any other sort of clinical study or trial.
He led Antezana to the summit but then high-tailed it down the mountain, leaving his staggering client to die 1,500 feet below the peak.
After the euro zone summit meeting last week, which cleared a second rescue package for Greece amounting to a staggering €109 billion, or $157 billion, Mrs. Merkel once again has to explain to the German Parliament and to the German public why they have to pay.
He is the Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, an office created by the George H. W. Bush White House and accelerated to staggering results under Obama, as 3 staffers have created a network of 10,000 collaborators, or "Stakeholders", at summits around the country.
"These guys will perform at an amazing level today, then get up and do it tomorrow and so on, for 21 days," Roger Aldred, 67, from Kingussie, Scotland, said near the summit of Col de Manse, a 5.9-mile climb in Stage 16. "The mental fortitude is staggering".
"A staggering 44%, that's 302 of our schools, have been attacked or shut down," the UNRWA chief, Pierre Krahenbuhl, will tell the summit.
Their dishonesty was staggering".
"The volume is staggering".
His potential's staggering".
