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It is the second highest railway in the world ( following opening of the Qingzang railway in Tibet ), with the Galera summit tunnel under Mount Meiggs at and Galera station at above sea level.
Reaching the wreck, Louis threads the shadow wire through the crashed ship and uses it to tether the ship to the police station, and then continues to pull the wire onward, up to the summit of " Fist-of-God ", the enormous mountain near their crash site.
But the only suitable starting point ( Earth station ) for the elevator lies at the summit of a mountain in Taprobane occupied by an ancient order of Buddhist monks, who implacably oppose the plan.
This part of the canal in parlance used by natives and canal staff was " the withered arm " and in fact was only really " opened " to allow the pumping station there to pump water into the summit.
In September 2004, the manned weather station at the summit was closed after 72 years in operation.
They take approximately 18 minutes at a speed of per second to reach the summit station.
The summit observatory, which is located at an altitude of, is an important scientific measuring station operated by the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
File: P1000266 Upper cable station. jpg | Upper Cable Station from the summit of Lion's Head ( Cape Town )
The radar tower was at the summit and the cantonment of the station was at, about one mile ( 1. 6 km ) below the present base of the ski area on Radar Road.
In 1882, a meteorological station was constructed on the summit, though it is no longer in use.
Although the highest elevation of the Sauerland is the Langenberg ( 843 m ) near Olsberg, the much more renowned summit, which is well known for the nearby skiing facilities, its weather station and observation tower, is the slightly lower Kahler Asten ( 842 m ) near Winterberg.
The remaining section included some specialised engineering work at its summit where the new line passes over the power station pipelines.
Another summit named Esel ( 2, 119 m ) lies just over the railway station.
File: PilatusNearLucernFromAbove. jpg | A view of the Esel summit and the train station
* 1894 the industrialist Adolf Guyer-Zeller received a concession for a rack railway, which began from the Kleine Scheidegg railway station of the Wengernalpbahn ( WAB ), with a long tunnel through the Eiger and Mönch up to the summit of the Jungfrau.
* The Funicular de Sant Joan, from the upper station of the Montserrat Rack Railway to the summit of the mountain of Montserrat.
The summit of Mauna Kea is so high that tourists are advised to stop at the visitor station for at least 30 minutes to acclimate to atmospheric conditions before continuing to the summit, and scientists often stay at Hale Pōhaku for 8 hours or more before spending a full night at observatories on the summit, with some telescopes requiring observers to spend one full night at Hale Pōhaku before working at the summit.
The building of the tunnel took 16 years and the summit station was not opened before 1912.
The goal was in fact to reach the summit of the Jungfrau with an elevator from the highest railway station inside the mountain.
In 1948, the German Federal Post Office ( Deutsche Bundespost ) began operating a microwave radio station at the summit.
On 25 March, an automated teller machine was installed at the summit station ; it has since been removed.

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And on the summit of Mount Washington, where thirty-five degrees below zero is commonplace and the wind velocity has registered higher than anywhere else in the world, there is a kind of wisdom to be found that other men often seek in the Himalayas `` because it is there ''.
When the revelation was given to Moses at Mount Sinai, he headed the elders of Israel who accompanied Moses on the way to the summit.
* 1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
The main television and radio transmitter of Hobart behind the lookout building near the summit of Mount Wellington.
The highest point in Lincoln is either the summit of Mount Carrigain, at above sea level, plus or minus, or the summit of Mount Bond at.
Mount Lykaion is sacred to Zeus Lykaios, who was said to have been born and brought up on it, and was the home of Pelasgus and his son Lycaon, who is said to have founded the ritual of Zeus practiced on its summit.
* 2001 – 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
* 1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's ( adopted ) 39th birthday.
* 1996 – The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest.
* 1975 – Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
During the 1995 G7 summit, Mount Saint Vincent University awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
One of the well-known mountains here is Mount Parker, whose almost circular crater lake measures a mile and a quarter in diameter and lies 300 meters below its 2, 040-meter summit.
In 1985, Sir Edmund Hillary ( the first man to stand on the summit of Mount Everest ) and Neil Armstrong ( the first man to stand on the moon ) landed at the North Pole in a small twin-engined ski plane.
* 1978 – Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
By comparison, the atmospheric pressure at the summit of Mount Everest is 32, 000 pascals, or about 32 % of Earth's sea level pressure.
The mountain retained its conical shape but with a red granite tone and a more angular summit under a red clouded sky to suggest the appearance of Mount Sinai for this single motion picture.
* October 4 – Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer become the first Australians to summit Mount Everest.
** Swede Göran Kropp reaches the Mount Everest summit alone without oxygen, after having bicycled there from Sweden.
** Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
* May 29 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

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