Sentence examples for summited from inspiring English sources

In 2001 the first blind person, American Erik Weihenmayer, summited Everest; he was an experienced climber who had already scaled peaks such as Denali (Mount McKinley) in Alaska and Kilimanjaro in eastern Africa before his climb of Everest.

On May 26 , 2008 when he was 75, he made a second successful ascent, but Sherchan, age 76 and a former soldier, had summited the day before, on May 25, to claim the record.

At the start of the spring season that year, fewer than 200 individuals had summited Everest.

However, by the 2003 season, a half century after the historic climb by Hillary and Tenzing, that number exceeded 1,200, and more than 200 climbers had summited Everest two or more times.

When he summited again at 75, he claimed to be the only man to accomplish the feat twice in his 70s.

His partners were Simone Moro, a forty-five-year-old Italian who'd been climbing in the Himalayas for more than twenty years (he'd summited Everest four times), and Jonathan Griffith, an English climber and photographer who lives in Chamonix.

Jonathan was due to fly to Paris on Friday for a summit hosted by François Hollande, the French president, to discuss the security threat posed by Boko Haram.

Clarke held talks on this at a recent EU-Latin America summit in Chile with Karel De Gucht, the European trade commissioner.

The summit logo reflected those ambitions, depicting a new dawn breaking and the three words: stability, growth, jobs.

Reports of his being rounded on by eurozone counterparts decrying his "amateurish" ways at a summit meeting on 24 April, appear only to have rallied support.

The highlight of its itinerary is an ascent of Mount Ramelau – the highest mountain in East Timor – timed so you will reach the summit for sunrise.