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

* 1859 – First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.

** The Soviet manned space mission Soyuz 18a ends in failure during its ascent into orbit when a critical malfunction occurs in the second and third stages of the booster rocket during staging, resulting with the cosmonauts and their Soyuz spacecraft having to be ripped free from the vehicle.

* August 1 – First ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.

The hillsides are in some places so steep that the ascent from the lower to the upper town has to be effected by flights of steps and the second or third storey of one house is often on a level with the ground storey of the next.

Subsequent investigation revealed that the second stage had ignited during ascent, detonating the Atlas's fuel supply.

Three days later on 24 September, after a direct ascent traverse with no mid-course corrections, the capsule, with its 101 grams of lunar soil, reentered Earth's atmosphere at a velocity of 11 kilometers per second.

After collecting a small sample of lunar soil, the spacecraft ’ s ascent stage lifted off at 22: 58 UT on 22 February and quickly accelerated to 2. 7 kilometers per second velocity — sufficient to return to Earth.

On 18 August 1932, launched from Dübendorf, Switzerland, Piccard and Max Cosyns made a second record-breaking ascent to.

If a climber is soloing — climbing by him-or herself — the climber removes placed gear while rappelling back down the climb ; if climbing with friends, the second person will clean the gear during his or her ascent up the pitch.

Julius Elliott made the second ascent via the Hörnli ridge in 1868, and later that year the party of John Tyndall, J. J. and J. P. Maquignaz was the first to traverse the summit by way of the Hörnli and Italian ridges.

He could make the second ascent ( September 3 ) of the Jungfrau, the Rottalsattel being reached from the east side as is now usual, and his companions being the two Valais hunters.

Simon Resch was also led the second ascent of the East Summit on 18 September 1834 with his son, Johann, and the mountain guide, Johann Barth.

* 1980: The second ascent of the West Pillar was completed in May by John Roskelley ( summit ), Chris Kopczynski, James States and Kim Momb, without Sherpa support and without bottled oxygen.

* 1970 – second ascent, via the northeast ridge by a Japanese expedition led by Tokufu Ohta and Shoji Imanari.

The second ascent of Nanga Parbat was via the Diamir Face, in 1962, by Germans Toni Kinshofer, S. L ِ w, and A. Mannhardt.

The second ascent was completed in 1948 by Americans Fred Ayers and John Oberlin.

There is evidence to suggest, however, that Kain openly acknowledged that his ascent of Mount Robson in 1913 was not the first ascent, but the second.

In May 1974, Boardman and Roger O ' Donovan made the first ascent via the South Face, and the second ascent overall, of Mount Dan Beard ( 3, 127m ) in the Alaska Range.

The second version of simulation theory proposes that each person comes to know his or her own and others ' minds through what Robert Gordon names a logical " ascent routine ", which answers questions about mental states by re-phrasing the question as a metaphysical one.

The second section ( pp. 43-181 ) depicts the fates of the Pistis Sophia, that is, the penitent and believing Sophia whom Jesus meets, during His ascent, and beneath the 13th Aeon.

He was subsequently assigned to the STS-2 astronaut support crew and was the ascent CAPCOM for the second Space Shuttle flight.

In preparation for the conquest of Constantinople, Sultan Mehmed II ( 1432 – 1481 ), son of Murad II, started to realize the construction of the fortress immediately following his second ascent to the throne in 1451.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.

Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.

The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

The second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.