Sentence examples for successful ascent from inspiring English sources

In September 1829, Johann Jacob von Parrot, a German, made the first recorded successful ascent.

After her successful ascent of Everest, she continued her conquest of the world's 8,000-metre 8,000-metre

My great uncle's expedition, of course, helped set these things in motion: that first successful ascent made all others possible.

He was already a hero in Austria for having made, with three others, the first successful ascent of the infamous north face of the Eiger in 1938.

Its publication coincides with the 50th anniversary of the first successful ascent of the world's highest peak by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on May 29 , 1953

The town is rich in history, dating back to the famously fatal climbing accident that ended the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn and cemented the town's legend.

By the end of 2003 there were 264 successful ascents.

Confirming the successful ascents, Gyanendra Shrestha, a Nepalese Tourism Ministry official, said: "They have become the first foreigners to reach the top of Everest after two years.

Both statistics grew dramatically in the succeeding decade, particularly the proportion of climbers with multiple ascents; by the end of the 2013 climbing season, the tally of successful ascents of the mountain was approaching 7,000, and some 2,750 had climbed it more than once.

During the seventy-six years from the first attempt on Everest, in 1921, through 1996, when I was guided up Everest, a hundred and forty-four people died and the summit was reached six hundred and thirty times, a ratio of one death for every four successful ascents.

That works out at roughly one death for every five successful ascents to the summit.