Helicopters were now widespread, obviating the need for arduous and dangerous ascents.
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Both Baby and Gunna's ascents have been intertwined with Thug's since the beginning.
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During some ascents to high notes, there was a sense of careful planning.
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The cryptocurrency's 13-year history is replete with fast ascents and equally rapid plunges.
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The recordings also showed that long ascents, observed during the summer, happen throughout the year.
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He also photographed his ascents, and many climbers consider his pictures from the 19903s inspirational.
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During these ascents, often at twilight, the birds climb up to one and a half miles.
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Together, we made the second and third ascents of the classic El Capitan route, the Nose.
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Wielicki, the leader of the upcoming expedition, was renowned for his solo ascents of Himalayan peaks.
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I have learned, however, a surprising lesson from my various ascents into periods of insufferable perfection.
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Elias has first ascents on five continents, among other accomplishments, but he's always searching for more.
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During the two ascents of the Grand Colombier, several of Froome's rivals tried to take him on.
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Bielecki courted Hajzer, emailing a list of his ascents, including climbs up 20,310-foot Denali in Alaska.
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Friday's stage is a punchy 101-km trek from Saint-Girons to Foix featuring three category-one ascents.
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The extreme qualities and the obsessive pursuit of success that drive their ascents can lead to their downfall.
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Only the most experienced climbers attempt ascents, and for every four who crawl to its peak, one dies.
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To wit: Jonathan Anderson and Christopher Kane have both spent time there prior to making their respective industry ascents.
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Ascents like Story's ought to humble us, or at minimum push us to question our confidence in our beliefs.
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Still, the judge said, a sentence of probation and 200 hours of community service would help deter similar ascents.
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The title refers to the name he gave one of his first ascents, on a seaside cliff in Wales.
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Mont du Chat would be the last of the ascents, and we headed there, hoping to see a crowd.
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But despite their parallel ascents in business and society, Mr. Mossack and Mr. Fonseca apparently kept their social lives separate.
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But there are few limits on who can get a permit to climb Everest from Nepal, where most ascents occur.
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To scale Aconcagua in Argentina, climbers are asked to provide details of winter ascents they have made in the past.
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"He is faster than me," said Sagan, the three-time defending world champion who excels in finishes on slight ascents.
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It also recharges via USB in just 20 minutes, and there's enough room for it to carry accessories for ascents.
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Mount Everest has become something of a trash heap, as hordes of climbers have been less than fastidious in their ascents.
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When he wasn't working Vescovo tackled ever tougher ascents: Denali in Alaska; Aconcagua in Argentina; Elbrus, the highest mountain in Russia.
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She asked the guides for assistance navigating the rocky ascents, which were just a tiny preview of what was to come.
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After a delayed arrival, Buzarnescu has not slowed down, achieving one of the fastest ascents ever once inside the top 100.
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Rawboned and tenacious, Mr. Beckey made as many as a thousand ascents that no one was known to have taken before.
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Pre-climb preparations also included rappelling and rehearsing sections while securely roped up, a common practice for climbers attempting multi-pitch ascents.
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Journeying between the Kim and Park households involves literal ascents or descents, as the rich family's house is on an actual hill.
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Concerns about the assets amassed by the so-called 1 percent helped to drive the ascents of Warren and later Ocasio-Cortez.
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At the same time, many are forgoing the raises and ascents on the career ladder that often come with a job switch.
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But as early as elementary school, I understood that my mother's way of healing was to seek solace in ascents and summits.
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Radically different as they are, both Barack Obama and Donald Trump made stunning ascents to the White House in precisely that way.
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My grandfather joined in the real estate business, just as waves of other Jews began to make their own white-collar ascents.
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Meanwhile, Lhapka Sherpa, 42, climbed the mountain for a seventh time, breaking her own record for ascents of Everest by a woman.
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Before the climbing guide's three latest ascents, the record was jointly held by Apa Sherpa and Phurba Tashi Sherpa, both prolific Nepali mountaineers.
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High above the desert, the houbara's slow, powerful wing beats form an eerily graceful counterpoint to the raptor's fluttering ascents and sudden dives.
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"Mix push-ups, jumping jacks, burpees, lunges, stair ascents and descents, ideally with short recovery periods to keep heart rate up," he says.
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De Plus is a climber, so he at least claims to like those ascents and the madcap rides down that go with them.
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Henao is expected to further threaten Alaphilippe's lead in Saturday's decisive so-called "queen stage", a 177-km trek featuring three category-one ascents.
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The riders will rest on Monday before stage 16 when the peloton faces three daunting ascents during Tuesday's 222km ride from Rovetta to Bormio.
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And its 158 percent return this time is by far the least rewarding of the previous, similarly long ascents through history, according to Leuthold.
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Mr. Harding continued rock climbing through the 1970s, making about 30 first ascents in Yosemite and becoming a legend of the sport's golden age.
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But these historical lessons have long been obscured by economic orthodoxy, one that Trump's — and China's — unexpected ascents have now exposed to critical scrutiny.
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With seven ascents that cumulatively amounted to 15,000 feet, it was the "monster stage" that Froome had predicted would cull the number of contenders.
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Those remarkable ascents have less to do with the ease of doing business in those places than with their governments' determination to achieve good grades.
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Pichação is a product of graffiti gangs known as pichadores, whose members make death-defying ascents up high-rises to paint political protestations in black.
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While both of the Max 8 planes that crashed experienced similar dips and climbs during their ascents, the airlines flying them have notably different reputations.
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Ms. He's work in ensembles could also give off a stranded feeling — and not just because of the strain evident in ascents to high notes.
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The 48-year-old was among the three men who have tied the previous record of 21 successful ascents of the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak.
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They see the parallel ascents of Xi and Trump as cause for celebration, and accuse "white lotuses," their term for Chinese liberals, of sanctimony and intolerance.
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Philadelphia is a sports-mad city, its fans celebrating not infrequently by breaking things or climbing light poles greased by workers to impede just such ascents.
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Likewise, over the course of 24, when yields slanted lower as stocks had one of the gentlest ascents in memory, rising 20 percent with hardly any pullbacks.
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Both brand-new Boeing 737 Max 8s crashed shortly after takeoff — Lion Air in October and Ethiopian Airlines last week — following erratic ascents, killing everyone on board.
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It chronicles three mountain climbers as they attempt one of the most elusive first ascents in the Indian Himalayas, the precarious Shark's Fin route on Mount Meru.
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It wasn't until the intertwined ascents of social media and millennial progressives that the zeitgeist really turned, and jaded acceptance of the status quo fell from fashion.
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He was the first climber to complete ropeless ascents of Doub-Griffith and Hairstyles and Attitudes, two climbing routes in Colorado's Eldorado Canyon, according to Climbing Magazine.
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El Capitan also has remarkably few proper ledges; almost all "free" ascents, as a result, involve quite a lot of resting on ropes and hardware between upward pushes.
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With all of the declarations of augmented reality and virtual reality's inevitable ascents to the heights of technological cruciality, Apple has managed to stay noticeably quiet on the topic.
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He challenged the image of the bearded, beer-swilling mountaineer; here was a honed engine who ran on a Spartan diet and planned his ascents down to the move.
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As with many of his ascents, Robbins planned his solo of Leaning Tower to be a bold statement about his belief in forming intimate connections with high, wild places.
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Lowe's other notable first ascents included blazing new routes up Kwangde Ri and Kangtega in the Himalayas and a wildly difficult, mixed-climbing one called Octopussy in Vail, Colo.
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Although the sport of mountaineering was pioneered by westerners, Sherpas hold the world record for most Everest ascents—Apa Sherpa and Phurba Tashi Sherpa both summited the peak 21 times.
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Cramer's top five names for the second quarter are all first-quarter winners, the top performers in the that should continue their ascents barring any major crises along the way.
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In 2017, Ueli Steck, a renowned mountain climber known as "the Swiss Machine" for his rapid ascents of imposing peaks, died in an accident at a camp near Mount Everest.
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Ahead of two grueling days filled with some punishing ascents, the main contenders in the Tour de France were hoping Wednesday would be a nice, relaxed day on the bike.
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However, Cramer's top five names for the second quarter are all first-quarter winners, the top performers in the that should continue their ascents barring any major crises along the way.
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In almost every case, those ascents were made possible by the aid of Sherpa, the distinct ethnic group in eastern Nepal who act as the porters and guides of the mountain.
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While other experienced mountaineers repeated ascents of Himalayan and Andean peaks for speed records, Mr. Beckey roamed North America in search of unconquered summits and routes considered too difficult to climb.
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Elizabeth Hawley, a Kathmandu-based historian who has chronicled Everest climbs for over five decades, said she had heard of people faking ascents but could not recall the government ever penalizing anyone.
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He gained notoriety for high-profile ascents of the Eiffel Tower; the Empire State Building; the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong, among others.
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Resorts that allow vertical ascents often have a designated uphill zone that is sometimes cordoned off from the rest of a run to prevent downhillers from entering uphill territory and vice versa.
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He was not what you might call Army material, but he cadged enough free time to bag a slew of first ascents with a cohort of Koreans, in the mountains around Seoul.
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He would continue to challenge the world's tallest peaks and trickiest ascents as one of the most renowned climbers of his generation, until illness in the last few years made climbing impossible.
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McGregor made one of MMA's last remaining first ascents with flair and devastation, and he was livid that the optics didn't match his vision of the moment: a belt hanging off each shoulder.
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Climbing Chimborazo can be done in about two weeks, with a one- or two-day hike after acclimatization, according to Todd Burleson, president of Alpine Ascents International, a mountaineering company based in Seattle.
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For those who don't know, free climbing is the same thing as rock or mountain climbing, but without ropes to break falls and no equipment other than fingers and toes while attempting ascents.
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Rejecting company, ropes or pitons (except the occasional strays left behind by more conventional climbers), he has completed more than 1,000 solitary ascents and is reputed to be the greatest surviving free-soloist.
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Shame's proximity to relative eccentrics has granted them one of the luckiest ascents to a record deal since Kelly Osbourne magically ended up on the same label as her dad in the early 00s.
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Honnold has been a wunderkind in the climbing world since 2008, after two game-changing rope-free ascents at Yosemite's Half Dome and Zion National Park's Moonlight Buttress in Utah, according to National Geographic.
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I made first ascents in Pakistan, Peru, Patagonia and Alaska, and although my tolerance for risk may have been higher than some might think was prudent, none of my climbs seemed crazy to me.
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Sprinting — especially uphill — is her specialty, though, and this course, which includes two nasty ascents, gave her and Randall an opportunity for a prize that had eluded American skiers for more than four decades.
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In the Solar Impulse plane, this was primarily the job of the pilot, who had carefully to manage ascents and descents depending on the power supply, and to take advantage of wind direction and speed.
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Tom Frost, a renowned rock climber who made daring first ascents up the towering El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and designed climbing hardware to protect rock from being gouged and scarred, died on Aug.
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We in the media too often cover politics as if it's all about personality, but the ascents of Trump and Sanders have more to do with ideas — with arguments, perspectives, lenses for looking at America.
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Relying on a streamlined approach and his own remarkable endurance, he set several Alpine records, including the fastest ascents of the north face of the Matterhorn and the Eiger, as well as the Grandes Jorasses.
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In addition to creating the impression of a President ill-suited for the world's most important job, Wolff's broad brush paints a credible picture of those struggling to work with him or plotting their own ascents.
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Evelin Seppar: Psalm 129 For a concert called "Pilgrimage of Life," Ms. Seppar, an Estonian composer, has been asked to set the so-called "song of ascents," which will be sung by the Norwegian Soloists' Choir.
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The FAA is working with airlines to roll out a system of satellite-based navigation that would allow for more continuous ascents and descents into increasingly crowded airports, which would save airlines fuel and reduce emissions.
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"The Poles went to the Himalayas a bit later than other climbers, so we missed the first ascents on top mountains," said Majer, explaining why Poles pioneered the relatively unexplored skill of winter climbing at the time.
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But in 1954 he and several friends achieved mountaineering's Triple Crown by reaching the caps of the Alaska Range giants: Mounts Hunter (14,573) and Deborah (12,339) — both in virgin ascents — and Denali's rarely climbed North Peak (19,470).
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Gordon Janow, director of programs at Alpine Ascents International, a Seattle-based expedition company, flew a group of 20173 climbers to the Himalayas in late March and doesn't expect them to come home until the end of May.
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He soloed the Nose on El Capitan, the 19673,000-foot-tall sheer granite cliff that has bedeviled generations of climbers, in 1973, and he made challenging first ascents — that is, pioneering routes — in England, Wales and Northern Europe.
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In "Know Your Whites," McMillan Cottom theorizes about the ascents of Barack Obama and Donald Trump, gathering evidence that includes her lived experience, the history of white fragility and the musings of a black man taking a smoke.
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Nobody keeps reliable records of these things, but Honnold's best guess as to the number of prior ascents with zero falls and zero resting on ropes was perhaps one or two, including his own final practice run with Caldwell.
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His death came nearly a week after the renowned Swiss mountain climber Ueli Steck, nicknamed "the Swiss Machine" for his rapid ascents of some of the world's most imposing peaks, died in an accident at a camp near Everest.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal — Ueli Steck, a renowned mountain climber nicknamed "the Swiss Machine" for his rapid ascents of some of the world's most imposing peaks, died in an accident on Sunday at a camp near Mount Everest, Nepali officials said.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - The widows of two sherpa climbers, who died on Mount Everest, will try to climb the world's highest mountain to complete the unfinished ascents of their husbands and hopefully inspire other single women, the pair said on Wednesday.
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On the South Col, the route that Jamsenpa has taken on all five of her ascents, Base Camp is located at 17,217 feet (2600,24 meters), and there are a further five camps until climbers make their bid for the top.
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"This man survived nearly 22011,21970 first ascents, where a climber doesn't know where to go and often has to deal with loose rock," Peter Green, director of the outdoor program at Portland's Catlin Gabel School, told The Oregonian in 28.
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A 2012 profile in Outside Magazine recounts how, after pledging to his wife, Nicole, that he would not make any more solo ascents, Mr. Steck endeavored in 2011 to climb Shishapangma, in Tibet, with a partner, the climber Don Bowie.
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Mexico's president has said that his country will not pay for Donald J. Trump's proposed wall along the United States-Mexico border, and has likened the presidential candidate's "strident" tone to that of dictators like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini during their ascents.
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I put on an episode of The Move last week and it opened, inauspiciously, with Armstrong grumbling along about the use of helmets on Alpe d'Huez, one of the most prestigious, difficult, and celebrated mountain ascents used in the Tour de France.
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There are plenty of shades of gnosticism, beings that seem greater and lesser, physical ascents and descents in the house that mirror heaven and hell, bleeding floors, shattering glass, even a frog; the Egyptian goddess of fertility, Heqet, was rendered as a frog.
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There will be only four summit finishes but attackers will get a chance to make an early impression with two of them coming in the first week, which will end with a grueling mountain stage in the Jura featuring three daunting out-of-category ascents.
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Within a few years, he had made first ascents and planted routes around Yosemite and other places in California and the West on his way to becoming a pioneer in rock climbing and a respected voice of a sport that grew up with him.
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What is more, because of freak weather, the Internationelles dismounted on the Champs-Elysees on Saturday with the full distance in their legs, 100km or so more than the men who skipped Friday's summit finish in Tignes because of landslides and one of Saturday's two ascents.
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Now the sputniks are ready to resume their nightly ascents, and the Met, which has been facing a box-office slump and fiscal challenges, can take its place once more among the many opera houses that have made opulent, ornate chandeliers showpieces in their own right.
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He was a regular at Camp 21986, a beloved bare-bones site near Yosemite Lodge that climbers have long used as a base camp, and he made first ascents with noted climbers like Royal Robbins, who also advanced the cause of what is known as clean climbing.
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Two climbers died of apparent altitude sickness and two more are missing, but a Nepalese woman who works as a housekeeper in Connecticut broke her own record for ascents by a female, and a man became the first combat amputee to summit the world's tallest peak.
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That's a tick in the pluses, by the way, and it's worth saying that even when finishing last, as I do a fair few times, tearing around these courses, with their dips into the deep blue and sheer-vertical ascents, corkscrew corners and space-set rollercoasters, remains a blast.
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But consider where Bisping was a few years ago, an outspoken middleweight whose ascents toward a title shot always ended with him getting knocked down, often by opponents pumped full of commission-approved exogenous testosterone, and of course those losses were blessings because Anderson Silva would murder him.
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Sampled by J Dilla, covered by Michael Jackson, and cited by Juan Atkins and Derrick May as a key influence on what would later become Detroit techno, the Tokyo trio played an unquestionably important role in the formative years of electronic music, both in the underground and in its many momentary ascents into the mainstream.
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Braving temperatures of 21970 degrees below zero and attenuated air at elevations above 22001,21993 feet, and buffeted by sometimes brutal winds, Mr. Worsley wore mountaineering skis and hauled a supply sledge with gear — including a tent, electronic communications equipment, climbing apparatuses for ascents and enough food for 2100 days — that weighed over 2000 pounds.
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Most notably, Alaphilippe, one of the punchiest riders in the peloton, at ease in the short and brutal climbs — much less so on long ascents — was deprived of a possible stage win last week when he lost considerable ground because of a mechanical problem while leading in the final descent of the 15th stage.
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While a relaxed trip will involve a few hours of activity on flat terrain and with little or no elevation gain, a strenuous trip is designed for very active travelers and includes 10+ hours of activity per day, steep ascents and descents, elevation changes of up to 4,000 feet per day, and altitudes topping 14,000 feet.
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Wearing headphones, chewing a cigar, seated in a swivel chair at the flight director's console surrounded by engineers at their computers and 17 projection screens, he coolly absorbed avalanches of incoming data and made tough "go, no-go" decisions during launch countdowns, at separation points of multistage rocket ascents and at other critical times in a flight.
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CHAMBÉRY, France — The Tour de France threw an array of challenges at Chris Froome on Sunday: steep mountain ascents followed by daredevil descents at speeds that exceeded 45 miles per hour, the loss of his top teammate in a crash, a breakdown on his bike, and rivals who tried to make him crack with bursts of acceleration.
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On Monday, April 11, Ms. Louis-Dreyfus, 55, who was in New York to host the April 16 broadcast of "Saturday Night Live" (where she spent a few exasperating years as a cast member in the 1980s), was seated in the lobby lounge of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, dressed in workout clothes and rectangular eyeglasses and sipping coffee as she spoke about her and her characters' ascents.
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