Sentence examples for the first to circle from inspiring English sources

Already holding the ballooning distance record, the adventurer Steve Fossett became the first balloonist to cross the South Atlantic, as he seeks to become the first to circle the globe.

In 1981-82, he led an expedition that was the first to circle the base of Mt. Everest, a trip that required him and a partner, Jan Reynolds, to ski and climb through Tibet and Nepal at altitudes as high as 23,000 feet.

Back in the days when it competed with Harley and Indian Motorcycle Co., Excelsior's bikes were the first to circle the world and the first to reach 100 miles per hour.

The flight wouldn't be the first to circle the globe, but at 29,000 miles it would be the longest.

He is best known for designing the Voyager, the first plane to circle the globe without refueling, in 1986.

The captain of the winning team is usually the first player to circle the ice with the Cup, but Sakic deferred to Bourque, passing the chalice to Bourque after receiving it from N.H.L. Commissioner Gary Bettman.

He was the first person to fly a balloon solo around the world and was the first pilot to circle the globe solo in an aircraft without stopping or refueling.

Earhart was declared dead after the U.S. government concluded that she crashed somewhere in the Pacific as she tried to become the first woman to circle the globe, her plane sinking to the seabed.

This fall he began the fourth and longest leg -- 8,000 miles across the Indian Ocean -- in his attempt to be the first person to circle the globe alone in a rowboat.

His service to Magellan created the circumstances in which he became the first person to circle the world and return home, albeit indirectly and not of his own volition.

Hudson has hired Burt Rutan, the designer and builder of Voyager, the first aircraft to circle the globe without refueling.