Hillary didn't actually manage to reach the summit of Makut Parbat which was his main objective, but the expedition gave him invaluable experience.
Jacob Roggeveen's expedition of 1722 gives us our first description of the islanders.
I suspected my window- and door-counting expedition had given him information he needed to break in to the building.
The assignment, and 17 expeditions into the Sahara, gave him material for his first book, "The Call of the Hoggar."
The expedition gave him his first field military experience along with other American military officers.
Alexander's Danubian expedition had given Cleitus just the chance he was waiting for.
My furtive hour-long expeditions gave way to daylong escapes.
To have one accompany the expedition would give the team instant validity.
And this expedition of Greely's gave rise to another example which seems to me hardly less remarkable.
The expedition gave unfavourable descriptions regarding any potential settlement due to the bar at the mouth and many mud flats upstream.