earthy scent unique to very old books a smell I happen to like ascent preserved from another time although his book has assumed the mantleof a classic Henry gray wrote it for a most prosaic purpose to satisfy a
But for little kids, I would really suggest that they learn some melody instrument before that. is called "Ascent ." So we hope you enjoyed this, and we look forward to seeing you all soon.
One person made the summit that year from another team, a Russian guy. We can make this ascent , so let's take that step.
Let's be honest. And then next up was Mount Elbrus, the tallest mountain in all of Europe, which is in Russia. That was a winter ascent , almost always climbed in summer. But I climbed it in winter so that I could stay ahead of the curve for the record.
you find out instead of expressing 48 chains, they only express 24. I can do gradient ascent , but that's even worse than gradient descent.
This is pretty wild, 1960. The second ascent of the nose, they found this oil can. Smelled like red wine because that's what Warren Harding used to bring up the stuff.
So I'm going to go through the history of just the nose route, the most famous big wall route in the world. After the first ascent , the second ascent in 1960, they did it in Alpine style, which means they didn't fix ropes all over. They just started at the bottom, went to the top in seven days.
They just started at the bottom, went to the top in seven days. The second ascent , like wow, that can be done. So it was done in three and a half days.
Tom Hornbein and Willy Unsoeld wanted to climb the west ridge, which was sort of the be all of what you want to do as a climber-- is to do a first ascent , a new route, and so they set out to climb the west ridge. And you see the two climbers here.
So what I've seen, and I'll close with this in order to take your questions,what I've seen in organizations happen a lot is that often this move into whitewater happens, there's an intellectual ascent on behalf of the 'V' and the 'O' team that really brought the business to here. Remember highly effective, highly flexible, highly fluid, love to do new things. They've got a lot of sweat equity together. They've known each other for a long time.
I mean, it just doesn't get more remote, and the logistics don't get more intense than it does for this kind of trip, especially for first ascents and vertical exploration. So finally, this is a really cool pivotal part of the story and one of the things I love about expeditions, just the mystery.
Okay. But what people today take for granted Knowledge institutions. And they forget that the ascent of knowledge institutions in the last 100 years, 200 years is what enabled everything that we have here today. Okay? Science, university, state capacity, journalism, this is the ascent of those institutions and the efficacy
So the astronauts will first go to the Gateway. We'll also put the lunar ascent and descent module on the Gateway, that they'll then crawl in and then go down to the surface and then come back to. And so we'll be reusing a lot of things in that area.
And to them, they couldn't see it in its grandeur, but it was just putting their hands on the stone. What it was for them was the ascent . It was the journey.
It was full of preparation. But it was mostly about the ascent , the challenge, the obstacles, the struggle, and doing this together. I still climb. Most recently, I was in the Swiss Alps climbing with my blind friend Erik.
Eight tourists who were trekking or climbing in the area lost their lives to that, and I think we would have been among them had we turned back. I was thankful for the ascent . I didn't realize it, but it even made news here at home.
One person made the summit that year from another team, a Russian guy. We're ready for the ascent .
Let's go up there and get the record, right? Does anybody know who has the fastest ascent of Everest?
This is why you want to climb mountains. This is Norgay and Hillary after their ascent in Tengboche-- just the trust, the companionship, the smile they both have in there is really, really special.
So I guess one of the ways to put it is I'm first and foremost a father, but I'm also an obsessed/addicted explorer-climber but specializing in first ascent . So the expeditions and climbs that I do are to places that no one's ever been to before, that are completely unknown, untouched,
But then, here's the unexplored part of the S curve, the part that we often don't talk about. We've been on this rapid ascent . Learning fast, contributing big.
This was true for basically the golden age of capitalism, until the early 1970s. And then the economic precondition of this social ascent of German workers changed. And it changed for most European countries.
He's completely blind. We climbed Mount Elbrus, the highest point on the European continent. We would climb it blind and make the first blind ascent , but then we'd click into our skis and make the first blind ski descent from 18,500 feet. A lot of you ski, maybe Winter Park here in Colorado, and you've seen blind skiers.
Carter told me. I'm getting rid of the bowls. "Fine. I nodded in ascent , scooped up the bag, and retreated back into the darkness of J-95.
The barrel of his rifle glistens under the stars. He was on the team that did the first ascent of that route on Everest, way back when you had to hike 200 miles even
It's strictly for the show of the game. Part of why I've been able to do the ascent 100 times-- and I'm just gesturing over here, but why on earth would I do it 100 times?
Is that correct? Third time without using supplemental oxygen. You might know him from really beautifully documented first ascent of Shark's Fin on Meru Peak, and he also, in addition to being a great outdoorsman, really likes the mountain community and working on it, promoting it, and founded the Khumbu Climbing Center in Nepal
So here I was at age 26 doing first ascents in the Himalayas.
And it has a lovely, gradual ascent for the first mile, and then it gets wicked, diabolically steep and hard.
And that's what I want to pass on to you. What is it to ascend, to make the ascent ? What does that require?
And we were primed exactly perfect for this climb to do the first free ascent .
Let's go up there and get the record, right? And we were kind of planning on a two or three day ascent , like most people do, and we're not going it.
all of you are so an integral part of it. That was 1953, the first ascent of Everest, and then came in 10 years later was the American ascent in 1963. And this was an expedition that was sponsored by the National Geographic Society.
-Real deal, man. Antarctica. It's mystery, because it's a first ascent .
mountain, and we did a hard first ascent in India with an Indian American women's team.
And when I look around the information ecosystem, I see the ascent of all this AI generated content, for example. I know for myself, when I'm consuming stuff on social media or encounter some news
We don't always know the outcome, but we give it our best. And in this case, I was glad that we made the ascent , that we chose to ascend. Well, it's lessons I've learned from climbing that I apply to my life, whether it's professionally or to my family, and again to climbs
One person made the summit that year from another team, a Russian guy. Well, what I did see as we began our ascent was not just the courage to plan, to prepare, but the courage
is similar I can ask you what's it like to be you and you can tell me and I can Ascent to that but what is it like
Of the two, the tree to the south of the lake provides the easier ascent .
As a mountaineer, she led the first all-female ascent of Annapurna, one of the 14 8,000-meter peaks.
Only the human body in its natural state can survive a fast, 300-foot ascent .
As a coach, they said on the air when he was coaching Andre and this tremendous ascent , Brad is the best tennis coach in the world.
And yet, when we got down from climbing this tower-- we did our first ascent on that-- we started hanging out with a family at the base.
1963, and this is the 50th anniversary of the first American ascent of Everest.
flesh toilets with soft two- ply paper last but not least are the Charlie Bronson guys who attempt solo ascents of
similarly, a political outsider, essentially not so much a grassroots guy because he's very much a celebrity, even before he made his ascent in politics. But it was certainly not his time.
And they forget that the ascent of knowledge institutions in the last 100 years, 200 years is what enabled everything that we have here today. Okay? Science, university, state capacity, journalism, this is the ascent of those institutions and the efficacy of those institutions, the trust in those institutions is what enabled everything that today we take for standard.
I was excited as we moved upwards. It was not very well known, but there were some incidents during our ascent .
One person made the summit that year from another team, a Russian guy. 9:00 at night, without really saying a word, we form a single file line and we continue the ascent .