When Mieszko II was busy defending Lusatia from the troops of Conrad II, the Kievan expedition started from the east with Yaroslav I the Wise as a leader.

The initial expedition started, probably unwisely, on December 9, 1913, at the height of the rainy season.

* September 6 – The U. S. Army expedition across America, which started July 7, ends in San Francisco.

The expedition started from Kiel in the summer of 1901.

Their expedition started from Banana at the mouth of the Congo River on 19 March and ended in Bagamoyo, Tanzania on 5 December 1889.

Public use of the word " Aqualung ", and public interest in Aqualungs and scuba diving, were started around 1953 in English-speaking counties by a National Geographical Society Magazine article about Cousteau's underwater archaeological expedition to Grand Congloué.

Attacks by Native Americans on U. S. troops in the Inland Empire started the expedition as the Yakima War, or the first phase of expedition.

from the University of Oxford, Layard returned to Constantinople as attaché to the British embassy, and, in August 1849, started on a second expedition, in the course of which he extended his investigations to the ruins of Babylon and the mounds of southern Mesopotamia.

Roald Amundsen started his South Pole expedition in 1911 from the Bay of Whales, which was located at the shelf.

They also read William H. Edwards on his Amazon expedition, and this started them thinking that a visit to the region would be exciting, and might launch their careers.

From the terminus of the Trans-Caspian Railway in Andijan, the expedition started in July 1906, but Mannerheim spent the greater part of it alone, after quarrelling with Pelliot over several logistic issues on their way to Kashgar in China's Xinjiang province.

Napoleon Bonaparte, with whom Tone had several interviews about this time, was much less disposed than Hoche had been to undertake in earnest an Irish expedition ; and when the rebellion broke out in Ireland in 1798 he had started for Egypt.

Sturt would have liked Hume to go with him on his second expedition, which started at the end of 1829, but he had a harvest to get in and was unable to make arrangements.

Leichhardt's second expedition, undertaken with a government grant and substantial private subscriptions, started in December 1846.

The expedition, led by polar explorer Artur Chilingarov, started from Chile on two Mi-8 helicopters and landed at the South Pole.

His plan was to begin an all-out attack upon the Nationalist forces of Chiang, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, drive them away from the Yangtze and Nanking and pursue them southward back into Guangzhou, where the expedition had started.

He started working with the Ashley expedition, signed on with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, and became a well-known mountain man.

Taking a generous starting date of ~ 1810 when introductions could have started, and taking into account that Lewis and Clark did not even return from their expedition until 1806, gives roughly a 60-year period of possible introductions.

An expedition that has been started will earn points according to how much progress has been made when the game ends, and after three rounds, the player with the highest total score wins the game.

Each expedition that is started but not thoroughly charted incurs a negative point penalty ( investment costs ).

A new round of recruiting 2000 new volunteers was started and Mannerheim made Aarne Sihvo the new commander of the expedition.

On 2 October 1824, Hovell and Hume met at Mr. Hume's house in Appin, and started upon their expedition.

* Expedition Island a park in Green River, Wyoming that marks where Major John Wesley Powell started an expedition down the Green River

Nevertheless, Wickwire continued high-altitude climbing after a couple years of his ordeal and surgery by climbing the slopes of Alaska ’ s Mount McKinley getting ready for his climbing expedition on Mt.

Wickwire listened to his wife and in 1982 he was climbing the slopes of Everest with the planned group for the expedition.

This includes difficult rock climbing and instruction in outdoor leadership, wilderness problem-solving, and advanced outdoor skills which include wilderness backpacking, navigation and travel, expedition behavior and group dynamics, advanced cooking, wilderness stewardship, and wilderness first aid and backcountry emergency procedures.

In 2004, the foundation brought eight people from Israel and the Palestinian territories together in a month-long sailing and mountain climbing expedition to Antarctica.

Stevens led a six-month expedition, writing for the newspaper of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and hunting big game.

A typical expedition lasts 7 to 8 weeks with climbing permits costing about US $ 7, 500 for five climbers.

* 1979 A Japanese expedition from Waseda University, led by Eiho Ohtani, succeeds in climbing the North Spur.

* The 2007 docu / drama film The Beckoning Silence features mountaineer Joe Simpson, of Touching the Void fame, recounting — with filmed reconstructions — the ill-fated 1936 expedition up the north face of the Eiger and how Heinrich Harrer's book The White Spider inspired him to take up climbing.

In the seventies, he went back to mountain climbing, and in 1985 he led the first Norwegian expedition to Mount Everest, reportedly one of the more successful Everest climbs to have taken place.

The climbing team, consisting of Boardman, Chris Bonington, Al Rouse and Joe Tasker, was supplemented by cameraman, Jim Curran, and a medical team carrying out research on the effects of altitude on expedition members.

Although best known for the Siula Grande climb, that expedition was a small part of Yates's climbing and mountaineering experience.

During the last week of January 2009, she recorded her offscreen role of the wife of climber George Mallory, who disappeared while climbing Mount Everest during a 1924 expedition, in the 2010 documentary film The Wildest Dream, for which Liam Neeson provides narration.

Adventure racing ( also called expedition racing ) is a combination of two or more endurance disciplines, including orienteering ( if an orienteering map is used ) and / or navigation ( when non-orienteering maps are used ), cross-country running, mountain biking, paddling and climbing and related rope skills.

The expedition was notable for the highest ascent ever made by Indian women up to that point in time, a descent complicated by retinal edema and vision loss in the climbing leader and a subsequent failed claim of a solo ascent by a later member of the same expedition.

Two weeks prior to this even 1 Polish expedition turned back after losing their expedition leader while climbing the head-wall to the East Summit.

The expedition made two unsuccessful attempts on the summit in early June, and there was time for one more before the heavy snowfall that came with the summer monsoon would make climbing too dangerous.

In 2000 he directed the IMAX film Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa for the National Geographic Society, a film that documented the climbing of the world's largest freestanding mountain in Tanzania, Africa, an expedition undertaken by seven climbers.

In the book, Jon Krakauer tells events leading up to his eventual decision to participate in an Everest expedition in May 1996, despite having mostly given up mountain climbing years before.

On 27 May, the expedition made its second and final assault on the summit with the second climbing pair.

Her husband, the oldest American ever to summit an " eight-thousander ", the world's fourteen mountains that surpass 8, 000 meters in altitude, died on a climbing expedition on September 25, 2009 while descending from the world's sixth tallest peak, Cho Oyu in Tibet.