Until the 20th century two characteristics in the coronations of kings and emperors remained: through ascent to the throne, the king is placed higher than other men, and the act of accession is connected with supernatural powers.
Hypoxic adaptive processes are likely to be common to tissue hypoxia whatever the cause, however, and studying healthy individuals progressively exposed to hypoxia through ascent to high altitude may inform of the nature of the hypoxic adaptive processes occurring in critically ill patients.
Their teammates will not be around to pull them along, as they dutifully did through ascents in the Pyrenees and the Alps.
The 186-mile Pembrokeshire Coast Path leads the walker through ascents and descents totalling 35,000 feet, and the section around Manorbier makes its own contribution to the slopefest.
She was memorable throughout the concert, from the anxious curlicues in the first movement of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Piano Trio (1987), through her ascent to icy heights at the end of Arvo Pärt's "Mozart-Adagio" (1992), to an assertive yet natural rendition of the tender cello line in the Adagio of Brahms's Piano Trio in B (Op. 8).
A camera mounted on the side of the ship's external tank showed a few pieces of presumably foam insulation falling away halfway through the ascent, but it was well after the period when debris poses a serious threat to the shuttle's heat shield.
Just before the crew day officially ended, an astronaut, Dominic A. Antonelli, called Discovery from mission control to tell Ms. Melroy that officials had preliminarily decided that the shuttle came through its ascent with so little damage that they would probably not call for a "focused inspection," which would require more than three hours, midway through the flight.
As we left the half-light of the forest to reach the first golden patch of savanna, and the first open sky, it had been hard not to feel evolutionary stirrings, to feel oneself speeding through an "Ascent of Man" illustration, knuckles lifting from the ground.
A number of skills helped me through this ascent.
Part of the reason Sunny has been so successful, despite its lack of fancy awards to place on the mantle, is its rabid cult following, which has helped to spread the word about the show and stuck with it even through its ascent into mainstream consciousness.
The sculptures on the West front have been interpreted as representing "spiritual ascent through the virtue of humility and descent through the vice of pride" and Christ as the Man of Sorrow and the Antichrist.
