The summer climbing season runs from late April until October, although many attempts are made in the winter.

Intermediate requirements set the standard at 5 percent by 2011, climbing gradually until 2025.

The route had no categorised climbs until the 160 km mark.

The number of the nation's children in poverty - also climbing until last year - is even more alarming, at close to 18 percent.

The mountain would not be climbed again until 1970.

Consumer confidence stayed low for a year, not climbing over 62.5 until the next February.

But then it dropped throughout the rest of the year and did not begin to climb again until the fall of 1984.

The eastern face of the peak wasn't successfully climbed again until 1951.

Adjusted for inflation, prices did not climb past their 1990 levels until the end of the decade.

They were still on their own property; he had just never found time to climb the hill in back of the house until today.