Joe Carnahan

I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.

American Director

Angela Merkel

On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.

German Statesman

Dwyane Wade

The biggest thing, and what I told some of the partners in the summit, was me thanking them for their constant support with everything that I've been through the last couple years on and off the court.

American Athlete

Marcel Proust

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

French Author

John Ortberg

To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.

American Clergyman

Paul D. Boyer

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

American Scientist

Anatoli Boukreev

I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.

Russian Athlete

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

American Theologian

George Bernard Shaw

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Irish Playwright

Harold MacMillan

English Politician

Used when talking about reaching high points, especially in mountain climbing and hiking.

Climbing Context

Metaphorically, it suggests achieving a goal, often used to describe personal or professional successes.

Achievement Symbol

It strictly refers to the very top, not just a high point on a slope or ridge.

Literal Peak

Refers to meetings with important people like heads of state, CEOs, or leaders from various organizations.

High-Level Talks

Often a formal gathering with a planned agenda, not casual or impromptu.

Formal Event

Usually focused on a particular issue or set of issues, like peace talks or environmental action.

Specific Topic

To actively climb and reach the summit of a peak. Implies a successful ascent.

Climbing Achievement

Indicates an adventurous or challenging act, often requiring skill and determination.

Adventurous Undertaking

 They'd all hiked up the normal trail on the back, which I was planning on using for my descent. But between me and the summit lay a blank slab of granite. There were no cracks or edges to hold on to, just small ripples of texture up a slightly less than vertical wall. I had to trust my life to the friction between my climbing shoes and the smooth granite. I carefully balanced my way upward,

How I climbed a...

 their animals the squid lady there was a lady who was so excited about squids she goes to like a squid summit every year I mean who knew that this kind of didn't even existed and it really made me think there needs to be more scientists like her because she realized that the probe that they were sending down into the deep ocean that has the most horrific

Dear Aunt Bonnie, I’m...

 that was left on the summit. The family had paid this company to try to go back and retrieve it. One of their main jobs, besides carrying these heavy loads above base camp is also essentially the herding of the human cattle. You know, we've got these big lines of people going up these ropes and

Unsung Heroes of Everest...

 that what human beings are currently capable of doing represents any sort of summit in what these machines might be capable of doing in the future. Now the third myth, what I call the superiority myth. It's often said that those who forget about the helpful side of technological progress,

3 myths about the future...

 media reports about the summit varied enormously. Some stated that it had gone smoothly, while others called it a complete failure. It's tempting to fixate on why we have competing perceptions, but perhaps the more important question the Rashomon effect raises is, what is truth anyway?

How do you know what's...

 successful summit beds on mount everest which means to the world's best alpinists everest is pretty much a hike in the hills i have much more interest in mountains that regardless of their altitude are

Mountaineering: Height...

 be okay and I reach the summit at six thirty in the morning and like I said I kind of envisioned being there with the rest of my team so expected to have a professional photographer with me but I

The Call of Everest PIPE...

 that the correct summit -- that all of our students, every high school graduate should know -- should be probability and statistics. I mean, don't get me wrong. Calculus is an important subject.

Arthur Benjamin: Teach...

 North below we could imagine where it would be possible to establish a tent and the most important was that we could see how long will be the summit reach

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner:...

 the summit of this volcanic mountain rises above the surface of the sea its

Summit