Sentence examples for stood on the summit from inspiring English sources

While we stood on the summit, the rain intensified.

The temple of Jupiter Poeninus once stood on the summit.

A few more whacks of the ice ax and we stood on the summit".

It stood on the summit of Mont Beuvray near modern Autun in Burgundy, and now has a superb museum.

After 45 minutes we stood on the summit, me feeling every inch like Reinhold Messner, despite my rasping breath.

Amazingly, Arnot stood on the summit just after Ecuadorian climber Carla Perez, who also summited without oxygen.

A replacement structure, the one that stands on the summit today, was built in 1965.

It has a remarkable record of political innovation and provided one of the first two men — Sir Edmund Hillary — to stand on the summit of Mount Everest.

Sir Edmund Hillary On 29 May 1953, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his guide, Tenzing Norgay, became the first people to stand on the summit of Mount Everest.

Sherpas do all the heavy lifting, making perhaps $5,000 in two months, while clients pay up to $100,000 for a chance to stand on the summit.

Then he brought Tenzing up on a tight rope, and together they climbed the final 300 feet to become the first humans to stand on the summit of Mount Everest.