The word was coined in 1834 from the Greek ἄνοδος ( anodos ), ' ascent ', by William Whewell, who had been consulted by Michael Faraday over some new names needed to complete a paper on the recently discovered process of electrolysis.

As examples of this theme, Stookey includes the revelation of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, Christ's ascent of a mountain to deliver his Sermon on the Mount, and Christ's ascension into Heaven from the Mount of Olives.

The New Testament records that St. Paul had called for the burning of magic and pagan books in the city of Ephesus ; this advice was adopted on a large scale after the Christian ascent to power.

* 1865 – First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.

Perez ( 2002 ) places the phases on a logistic or S curve, with the following labels: beginning of a technological era as irruption, the ascent as frenzy, the rapid build out as synergy and the completion as maturity.

* 1894-First ascent of Aoraki / Mount Cook, on Christmas Day, by Jack Clarke, Tom Fyfe and George Graham

* 1958 – A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.

* On-Sight Climbing, the ascent of a rock climbing route on the first attempt, with no falls, without prior knowledge of its specifics beyond its difficulty rating and number of protection points, if a bolted climbing route.

By leaving the vehicle's power source on the ground and by using ambient atmosphere as reaction mass for much of its ascent, a lightcraft would be capable of delivering a very large percentage of its launch mass to orbit.

Challenger was destroyed during ascent due to O-Ring failure on the right solid rocket booster ( SRB ) on January 28, 1986, with the loss of all seven astronauts on board.

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board, in its report, noted the reduced risk to the crew when a shuttle flies to the International Space Station ( ISS ), as the station can be used as a safe haven for the crew awaiting rescue in the event that damage to the shuttle orbiter on ascent makes it unsafe for re-entry.

The likelihood of this occurring depends on the shape of the fitness landscape: certain problems may provide an easy ascent towards a global optimum, others may make it easier for the function to find the local optima.

Hamish Brown did the first continuous self-propelled round of the Munros ( except for the Skye and Mull ferries ) between 4 April and 24 July 1974 walking, of which were on a bicycle, with of ascent.

The first ascent of Grand Teton that is substantiated was made by William O. Owen, Frank Petersen, John Shive and Franklin Spencer Spalding on August 11, 1898.

Owen had made two previous attempts on the peak and after publishing several accounts of this first ascent, discredited any claim that Langford and Stevenson had ever reached beyond The Enclosure in 1872.

* Keith Thomas: “ Spiritual magic or theurgy was based on the idea that one could reach God in an ascent up the scale of creation made possible by a rigorous course of prayer, fasting and devotional preparation .”

The ascent to the top is on the outside, by a path which winds round all the towers.

Two young and blooming maidens lived together at that dread time, like Bessie Bell and Mary Gray, in a remote cottage on the steep ( indeed almost perpendicular ) ascent of the Bonnetmaker ’ s Hill.

The ascent on Triglav was connected with the competition between Slovenes and Germans.

The first recorded ascent of Triglav was achieved on 26 August 1778 by Luka Korošec, Matija Kos, Štefan Rožič and Lovrenc Willomitzer, on the initiative of the industrialist and polymath Sigmund Zois.

From the Mongolian plateau the ascent is on the whole gentle, but from the plains of Siberia it is much steeper, despite the fact that the range is masked by a broad belt of subsidiary ranges of an Alpine character, e. g. the Usinsk, Oya, Tunka and Kitoi ranges.

Since the lifts were not yet in operation, the ascent was made by foot, and took over an hour, Eiffel frequently stopping to make explanations of various features.

The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1868, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.

* The rider may initiate the board's flip later in the ollie ( after the ascent ), or with the foot used to pop the board off the ground ( the back foot in an ollie or front foot in a nollie ).

Climbers have to trek across undulating ridges and make several river crossings before finally reaching the foot of the mountain to make the final ascent.

At the foot of the ascent they find their grandmother, Whaitiri, now blind, who sits continually counting the tubers of sweet potato or taro that are her only food.

At the foot of the ascent they find their grandmother, Whaitiri, now blind, who sits continually counting the tubers of sweet potato or taro that are her only food.

The first known explorer to have stepped foot in what is now known as Sargent ’ s Purchase was Darby Field, who claimed to have made the first ascent of Mount Washington in 1642.

Following the November, 2011 Spanish General Election, on June 1, 2012 the new conservative Popular Party government of Mariano Rajoy reopened the monument to the public with the exception only of the base of the cross, in the past accessible by cable car or on foot, which will remain closed to ascent while the sculptures of the four apostles and the cardinal virtues forming part of the base of the cross are presently under engineering review and restoration for cracks and other deterioration.

Amé Gorret has described this ascent with enthusiasm: " At last we crossed the Col du Lion and set foot upon the pyramid of the Matterhorn!

Although the large ranch already had a Victorian mansion, the location selected for Hearst Castle was undeveloped, atop a steep hill whose ascent was a dirt path accessible only by foot or on horseback over five miles ( 8 km ) of cutbacks.

Washburn and Bates continued on foot to make the first ascent of Lucania, and in an epic descent and journey to civilization, they hiked over through the wilderness to safety in the small town of Burwash Landing in the Yukon.

The most normal starting point for climbing Beinn Dearg is the car park at the foot of the Abhainn Coire Mhic Nobuil, which is also the normal start point for an ascent of Beinn Alligin.

* 1986 American climber Ed Webster made the first solo ascent via the SE face from the foot of the North Col on August 28, 1986.

Probably the easiest route of ascent is from the Coire Cas car park at the foot of Cairngorm Ski Centre by way of a path that leads up over slowly rising moorland.

There, on August 13, 1931, the party completed the first ascent of the last unclimbed 14, 000 + foot peak in California, which remained unnamed due to its remote location above the Palisade Glaciers.

He also climbed the Nilgiris near Annapurna, and led the successful 1964 first ascent of 12, 240 foot Mount Huntington, in the Alaska Range, by the northwest ridge.

It is also possible to begin the ascent from the foot of the pass in Eskdale, although this will triple the length of the walk and the height gained.

* The annual Platberg Mountain Race is a 15 km foot race, including a scrambling ascent and descent of the mountain.

Lewin Bentham Bowring, who served as Commissioner of Mysore between 1862 and 1870, records that Kodachadri is " clothed with splendid forests, and the ascent is very steep indeed in one place near foot .... The view from the top of the hill, which has a bluff appearance from the distance, though it is as sharp as a knife in reality, is very fine, commanding a long stretch of great Ghat range, a considerable portion of Canara, and a vide view over Malnad ".

At the foot of the steep ascent, at an altitude of only 800m, is The Gap, where a colonial resthouse remains open.

The " true " height of the arch is debatable: viewing the arch from the east ( normal approach route ) it appears to be 200 feet tall from the top of the 100 foot rubble pile ; from the west side ( approachable via a technical canyon ascent ), the height is closer to the estimated 1, 200 feet.

Climbers Wilfrid Noyce and A. D. M. Cox climbed to within 50 m of the summit via the north ridge, but did not complete the ascent ; they had promised not to set foot on the actual summit.