8 sentences with 'summit'
Example sentences and phrases with the word summit and other words derived from it.
• « At last they climbed the summit and entered Nepal. For the first time in their lives they were free of the Chinese yoke, but they were still in danger: they knew that if the Nepalese police caught them, they could be deported for a reward. »
• « The summit of this gigantic Martian mountain, which we are not going to fly over, is a gigantic caldera from which enormous lava flows have fallen down the slopes not so long ago, say a billion years ago, hence its appearance. »
• « While the world's first skyscraper was erected on a metal structure in 1885, in 1953 a Nepalese man and a New Zealander managed to reach the summit of the highest mountain, Everest. »
• « In 1953, New Zealander Edmund P. Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa Terising reached the summit of the highest mountain on Earth, Everest in the Himalayas, which is 8,882 m high. »
• « If Barcelona is the heart of Catalonia, its soul is Montserrat, whose 1235-metre peak rises from the surrounding pine forest like the jawbone of a giant whale. The only access routes to the Benedictine monastery, located at the foot of the summit of the "sawed mountain", are a winding road and a funicular railway. »
• « On the 29th of May 1953, New Zealander Edmund Hillary became the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest with Nepalese climber Tenzing Norgay (the summit at the time was 29,028 feet above sea level). He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II on his return. »
• « Sir Edmund Hillary was famous after news spread he had reached the summit, but he didn't finish at Mount Everest. He led the New Zealand section of the Trans-Antarctic expedition from 1955 to 1958. »