Sentence examples for summit attempt from inspiring English sources

It was the evening before our summit attempt.

We are confident but know that our own summit attempt will be no lay-up.

I was gutted, as the whole film production had everything staked on Brian making the summit attempt.

On Monday Coster detailed what happened during the summit attempt that also claimed the life of Dutch climber Eric Arnold.

Speaking of humility, when we first arrived at Barafu, we were witness to two individuals being rescued from their summit attempt due to severe symptoms of altitude sickness.

In September he made a solo summit attempt before turning back at an elevation of about 26,740 feet (8,150 metres).

Ice axes and crampons are always used on summit attempts.

Apa began working on Everest trips in 1988, participating in several unsuccessful summit attempts over the next two years.

"Climbers will then start making summit attempts from Thursday," said Ang Tshering Sherpa, chief of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, who is in contact with climbers at base camp.

Saturday's magnitude 7.8 earthquake spread horror from Kathmandu to small villages and to the slopes of Mount Everest, triggering an avalanche that buried part of the base camp packed with foreign climbers preparing to make their summit attempts.

An Iranian delegate was not present at today's international summit attempting to co-ordinate the global response to Isis, which is waging a bloody campaign to establish an Islamic caliphate straddling Syria and Iraq.