* 1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.

In May 2006, climber Dean Potter made the first recorded free solo ( no ropes or protection ) ascent of this formation.

The first navy of the Caliph of Córdoba or Emir was built after the humiliating Viking ascent of the Guadalquivir in 844 when they sacked Seville.

* 1956 – Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II ( 8, 035 m ).

* 2012 – Polish mountaineers Adam Bielecki and Janusz Gołąb make the first winter ascent of Gasherbrum I.

Sir Edmund Hillary made his first ascent in January 1948.

In February 1948 with Ruth Adams, Harry Ayres and Mick Sullivan, Hillary made the first ascent of the South Ridge to the Low Peak In order to celebrate the life of Hillary the South Ridge was renamed as Hillary Ridge in August 2011.

* 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.

* 1783 – The Montgolfier brothers ' hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, ( tethered balloon ).

An image plate from the first palace of Phaistos, seems to be very close to the mythical image of the Anodos ( ascent ) of Persephone.

* 1899 – Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian ( 5, 199 m – 17, 058 ft ), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.

At about this time, the people of the lagoon elected their own leader for the first time, although the relationship of this ascent to the uprisings is not clear.

The first ascent of LZ1 over Lake Constance ( the Bodensee ) in 1900

The first ascent of LZ1 over Lake Constance ( the Bodensee ) in 1900.

* July 14 – First ascent of the Matterhorn: The summit of the Matterhorn in the Alps is reached for the first time, by a party of seven led by the Englishman Edward Whymper ; four die in a fall during the descent.

* May 13 – A joint Swiss & Austrian expedition makes the first ascent of the Asian mountain, Dhaulagiri, the world's 7th highest mountain.

** Reinhold Messner ( Italy ) and Peter Habeler ( Austria ) made the first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen.

* August 27 – English lawyer Alfred Wills and party set out for the first ascent of the Wetterhorn in Switzerland, regarded as the start of the " golden age of alpinism ".

* The first ascent is made of Castle Mountain by geologist Arthur Philemon Coleman.

* Pedro Teixeira makes the first ascent of the Amazon River, from its mouth to Quito, Ecuador.

She continues her ascent first in post-war Paris and then in London where she is patronised by the great Marquis of Steyne, who covertly subsidises her and introduces her to London society.

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.

However, white explorers may not have been the first to climb many of the peaks and the earliest first ascent of even the formidable Grand Teton itself might have been achieved long before written history documented it.

In Belgium an extensive system of tram-like local railways called vicinal or buurtspoor lines crossed the country in the first half of the 20th century, and had a greater route length than the main-line railway system.

Sheet metal or boards are used to route the airflow through the brick lattice so that fresh air flows first through the recently burned bricks, heating the air, then through the active burning zone.

The first of several Roman embassies to China is recorded in Chinese sources, coming from the sea route in AD 166, and a second one in AD 284.

On-sight climbing means to attempt a rock climbing route for the first time without inspection or any form of " beta " ( such as route description, watching others climb it, etc.

The Caribbean Sea was an unknown body of water to the populations of Eurasia until 1492, when Christopher Columbus first sailed into Caribbean waters on a quest to find a sea route to Asia.

He then entered the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company as a fur trader and in 1792 completed his first significant survey, mapping a route to Lake Athabasca ( presently straddling the Alberta / Saskatchewan border ).

Among the more notable moments in the rivalry was the Giants ' defeat of Dallas in the 2007 playoffs en route to their victory in Super Bowl XLII and winning the first regular season game played at Cowboys Stadium in 2009.

The two conference title games led to a hot bidding war between the clubs for players ; the Niners signed cornerback Deion Sanders from the Atlanta Falcons and also signed linebacker Ken Norton, Jr. from the Cowboys ; they defeated the Cowboys 21-14 in the 1994 regular season and then hosted the Cowboys in that year's Conference title game, with the Cowboys now coached by Barry Switzer ; the 49ers raced to a 21-0 lead in the first seven minutes of the first quarter and won 38-28 en route to Super Bowl XXIX.

A part of this route is the same as where electric trams made their world first run in 1887.

Commercial use of hydrofoils in the U. S. first appeared in 1961 when two commuter vessels were commissioned by Harry Gale Nye, Jr .' s North American Hydrofoils to service the route from Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey to the financial district of Lower Manhattan.

Verulam Road was created specifically to aid the movement of stage coaches, since St Albans was the first major stop on the coaching route north from London.

In 1348, Ibn Battuta arrived in Damascus with the intention of retracing the route of his first hajj.

The first European fleet, four Portuguese ships from Malacca, arrived in 1513 when the Portuguese were looking for a route for spices.

The paths an LSR knows can be defined using explicit hop-by-hop configuration, or are dynamically routed by the constrained shortest path first ( CSPF ) algorithm, or are configured as a loose route that avoids a particular IP address or that is partly explicit and partly dynamic.

Sought by explorers for centuries as a possible trade route, it was first navigated by Roald Amundsen in 1903 – 1906.

* Bids are invited for construction of a rail network in three phases: The first phase would be a double-track electrified coastal route from Masqat to Suhar ; the second phase would be an extension from Masqat to Daq ; the third phase an extension from Suhar to Al-Ayn ( in UAE ).

Recent infrastructural developments include the opening of the fast tram route ( Poznański Szybki Tramwaj, popularly Pestka ) in 1997, and Poznań's first motorway connection ( part of the A2 autostrada ) in 2003.

The Angel, Islington was formerly a coaching inn, the first on the route northwards out of London, where Thomas Paine is believed to have written much of The Rights of Man.

At first the French and English crusaders travelled together, but the armies split at Lyon, as Richard decided to go by sea, and Philip took the overland route through the Alps to Genoa.

By October, he was en route to South Africa to join, the flagship of the Cape squadron, the first of several ships on which he served during his midshipman years.

During the early 1970s, retroviruses and reverse transcriptase were discovered, showing for the first time that enzymes could copy RNA into DNA ( the opposite of the usual route for transmission of genetic information ).