“Just below it leaned a tottering crag that would have toppled, starting an avalanche on an acclivity where no sliding mass could stop.”

“The ascent into space begins, first slowly, and then rapidly as the tremendous force of the rocket engines pushes the payload faster and faster.”

“People continued to think of the climb to the top of Mount Everest as the greatest feat of human ability.”

“In the struggle which followed Temür's death, we find almost all the political actors who had played a part in his rise to power and his early rule.”

“In those days, I never went anywhere without my trusty camera, so I even recorded it for posterity.”

“Evidently, the sudden retreat fatigued the troops as well as discouraged them.”