The first time was in 1955 when a full-dress Big Four summit meeting produced the `` spirit of Geneva ''.

On the third occasion -- another Big Four summit session at Paris a year ago -- there was no problem of an illusory `` spirit ''.

Apart from the personal equation, another reason advanced in favor of the meeting was that too often in the past the U.S. appeared to have been dragged reluctantly to the summit.

Finally, there was a wide area of agreement on the value of the President's making a final effort in the summit spotlight for a nuclear test accord.

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.

To accommodate it, the south part of the summit was cleared, made level by adding some 8, 000 two-ton blocks of limestone, a foundation deep at some points, and the rest filled with earth kept in place by the retaining wall.

During the Julio-Claudian period, the Temple of Rome and Augustus, a small, round edifice, about 23 meters from the Parthenon, was to be the last significant ancient construction on the summit of the rock.

In Quebec City, municipal officials built a 3 metre ( 10 ft ) high wall around the portion of the city where the Summit of the Americas was being held, which only residents, delegates to the summit, and certain accredited journalists were allowed to pass through.

It was built by King Ajāypāl Chauhān on the summit of Tārāgaṛh Hill and overlooks Ajmer.

A further summit was held on 31 January 2004.

Chile hosted the second Summit of the Americas in 1998, was the chair of the Rio Group in 2001, hosted the Defense Ministerial of the Americas in 2002, and the APEC summit and related meetings in 2004.

To break out of the limitations caused by river valleys, the first summit level canals were developed with the Grand Canal of China in 581 – 617 AD whilst in Europe the first, also using single locks, was the Stecknitz Canal in Germany in 1398.

Colombia was a participant in the December 1994 and April 1998 Summits of the Americas and followed up on initiatives developed at the summit by hosting two post-summit, ministerial-level meetings on trade and science and technology.

The office of consul was the most prestigious of all, and represented the summit of a successful career.

According to a tradition preserved in Eastern Christian folklore, Golgotha was the summit of the cosmic mountain at the center of the world and the location where Adam had been both created and buried.

Near the end of his term, his efforts to set up a summit meeting with the Soviets collapsed because of the U-2 incident when an American spy plane was shot down over Russia and its pilot captured.

Local tradition has it that his wife would camp on the nearby Strawberry Island ( which was visible from the open sea ) and signal him with a fire on the island's summit to alert him to whether or not it was safe to bring his illegal cargo ashore.

Another summit was convened in Sharm El Sheik in early 2005, which was attended by Egypt, Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan.

The Central American Integration System ( SICA ) was expected to adopt a co-ordinated position on the issue at its summit in San Salvador on 18 August.

However, relations were strained for a time following the 26 June 1995 assassination attempt against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak as he was leaving the OAU summit meeting in Addis Ababa.

The vanguard, with which Queen Eleanor marched, was commanded by her Aquitainian vassal, Geoffrey de Rancon ; this, being unencumbered by baggage, managed to reach the summit of Cadmos, where de Rancon had been ordered to make camp for the night.

Accordingly, by midafternoon, the rear of the column – believing the day's march to be nearly at an end – was dawdling ; this resulted in the army becoming divided, with some having already crossed the summit and others still approaching it.

It was at this point that the Turks, who had been following and feinting for many days, seized their opportunity and attacked those who had not yet crossed the summit.

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

* 1943 – Ashraf Aman, first Pakistani to reach the summit of K2

* 2000 – President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

As the last summit was hold in 1999 in Istanbul, the first summit in the past 10 years could give a fresh impetus to the development of the OSCE.

* 1974 – An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8, 000-meter peak.

* 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.

* 1988 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

* 1975 – Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

In 1972, the first formal summit meeting between Pyongyang and Seoul was held, but cautious talks did not lead much of anywhere and relations between the two Koreas continued down the path of hostility.

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.

Hillary thus became the first man to stand at both poles and on the summit of Everest.

* 1978 – Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

* 1986 – Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.

The first endeavor to build a sanctuary for Athena Parthenos on the site of the present Parthenon was begun shortly after the Battle of Marathon ( c. 490 – 488 BC ) upon a muscular limestone foundation that extended and leveled the southern part of the Acropolis summit.

( Or almost the first ; for in a high pasture he met an old shepherd, who said that fifty years before he had attained the summit, and had got nothing from it save toil and repentance and torn clothing.

Conceived by the Arab states at the first Arab summit meeting, the 1964 Arab League summit ( Cairo ), its stated goal was the " liberation of Palestine " through armed struggle.

The World Council of Churches proposed a reform of the method of determining the date of Easter at a summit in Aleppo, Syria, in 1997: Easter would be defined as the first Sunday following the first astronomical full moon following the astronomical vernal equinox, as determined from the meridian of Jerusalem.