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- noun Plural form of
ascent .
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Examples
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He has used powerful bursts of speed on mountain ascents to gain an edge.
USATODAY.com - Focus gives Lance head start as Tour de France nears 2005
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Among the first recorded ascents is that in August 1838 by a group of several European botanists: Henri Galeotti, Nicolas Funck, Auguste Ghiesbreght and Jean-Jules Linden.
Did you know? An early ascent of Mexico's highest peak, El Pico de Orizaba 2003
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Among the first recorded ascents is that in August 1838 by a group of several European botanists: Henri Galeotti, Nicolas Funck, Auguste Ghiesbreght and Jean-Jules Linden.
Did you know? An early ascent of Mexico's highest peak, El Pico de Orizaba 2003
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Among the first recorded ascents is that in August 1838 by a group of several European botanists: Henri Galeotti, Nicolas Funck, Auguste Ghiesbreght and Jean-Jules Linden.
Did you know? An early ascent of Mexico's highest peak, El Pico de Orizaba 2003
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He recorded scores of first ascents, some freestyle, on some of the most challenging mountains.
Obituary: Freestyle mountain climber Kurt Albert dies of injuries from fall T. Rees Shapiro 2010
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He was one climb short of the world record of ascents on Everest, currently set at 20 and held by Nepalese climber Sherpa Apa.
Chadwick Hagan: Everest Sherpa Still Missing From Avalance Chadwick Hagan 2010
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After making the first ascents of several peaks, Mr. Chouinard and his friends drew a map of the unnamed mountains they had explored—and then burned it.
Semi-Roughing It Michael J. Ybarra 2011
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He was one climb short of the world record of ascents on Everest, currently set at 20 and held by Nepalese climber Sherpa Apa.
Chadwick Hagan: Everest Sherpa Still Missing From Avalance Chadwick Hagan 2010
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Members of Harvard and Dartmouth's mountaineering clubs claimed many of North America's most difficult first ascents, and for years upper-class British climbers deemed it unsporting to use pitons, or iron spikes, on even the most harrowing verticals.
The Gentleman Adventurer Darrell Hartman 2011
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In the late 1980s, he made a number of first freestyle ascents of some classic peaks, including Hasse-Brandler on Cima Grande in the Italian Dolomites and the Swiss route on Cima Ovest.
Obituary: Freestyle mountain climber Kurt Albert dies of injuries from fall T. Rees Shapiro 2010
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