Sentence examples for winter ascent from inspiring English sources

He made his chief ascents between 1865 and 1898 and accomplished the first winter ascent of the 13,642-foot (4,158-metre 4,158-metren Switzerland (1874).

In pure mountaineering terms, the big achievements of the 1990s were the first winter ascent of the Southwest Face in 1993 (by a Japanese team led by Yagihara Kuniaki), the first complete ascent of the Northeast Ridge in 1995 (by another Japanese team led by Kanzaki Tadao), and the first ascent of the North-Northeast Couloir in 1996 (by a Russian team led by Sergei Antipin).

A. Davidson, Minus 148°: First winter ascent of Mt. McKinley (The Mountaineers, Seattle, 1990).

Unaided and without oxygen, The North Face alpinists Cory Richards, Simone Moro and Denis Urubko achieved the first winter ascent of Gasherbrum II in Pakistan, reaching a height of 8035m in extreme, freezing conditions.

For dogged teamwork, nothing has surpassed the first winter ascent of Everest.

In his language, what he meant was that, since the weather was good, we could leave the next day for the winter ascent of the Tooth of M., which we had been planning for a while.

During a 1983 winter ascent of the east face of Longs Peak, a 14,251-foot 14,251-foot Rocky mountain Natinnal PaRocky Mountain National Parkne of the top young clinbers in Boulder, was musColoradoSteve Ilgan onerhanging sectiof of rock.

Rather than a summer slide, there was a summer ascent.

A harrowing account of the ill-fated 1996 ascent.

No bodies were found at the time of the crash or during the 2006 ascent.

Since the 1953 ascent, more than 1,200 people from 63 countries have reached the summit.