The phrase 'surmount to' is not correct in written English.
You can use the phrase 'amount to' or 'add up to' when referring to a total or sum. For example, "The cost of the project would amount to over a million dollars."
Here is a mid-August assessment of the four hurdles the Yankees have to surmount to gain their fourth straight World Series championship.
The transition state, or activated complex, is the fleeting molecular configuration that exists at the top of the energy barrier that the reactants must surmount to become the products.
Gov. Chris Christie is pressing for regulations that would allow some New Jersey school districts to hire superintendents without traditional academic backgrounds or experience, in an effort to change confining state rules like those that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg had to surmount to win approval for Cathleen P. Black, his choice for New York City schools chancellor.
"There are huge hurdles they have to surmount to keep their children healthy.
But this emerging innovation has many hurdles to surmount to become the "telephone" or the "water" equivalent of the IT world.
The research on Romania highlights many lessons for emerging civil nuclear energy nations of the problems, issues and considerations that they will have to surmount to develop a safe and operational nuclear energy plant.
Mobile treatment may provide an opportunity to expand outreach to parolees to surmount barriers to traditional clinic treatment.
"Aman is free, at least," Emma observes,praying the child she carries is a son, "freeto range, … to surmount obstacles, to tastethe rarest pleasures.
Survivors describe the obstacles they have surmounted to become the healthy, happy people they are today.
The physical, technical and regulatory hurdles that would have to be surmounted to make such an extension happen are tremendous.
But these conversations quickly become self-defeating as one realises the colossal amount of Kafkaesque red tape that would have to be surmounted to make any progress.
