The summit would be in the foreground.

What ladder?

So about seven years, eight years to reach your peak, and then gradually you fall off your peak, until you go back to the starting point.

And a light from its summit Doth illumine me

Is this Crestview 51733?

And this particular painting, I think, represents the pinnacle, the peak, of that clinical era.

As a whole, the post war period was a period of dynamic construction work in Iceland, and the boom peaked in the 1970s.

Has Oil Production Peaked?

OK. Those climbers were up near the summit, along that summit ridge that you see up there, and I was down here in Camp Three.

And there were climbers on that summit ridge.

I was on a high.

that's what I thought until I came here.

This is what in the infantry we used to call the military crest.

It was on my fourth trip to Everest that a comet passed over the mountain. Hyakutake.

You can see here some ferocious winds blowing snow way high off the summit.

OK, this is a view taken on the summit ridge itself.

And it was at the height of the Cold War.

Women's ability to find the right word rapidly, basic articulation goes up in the middle of the menstrual cycle, when estrogen levels peak.

Remember, a seamount turns into an island when it hits the surface.

I bet I can take that girl... inside of six months, put her on top of the ladder.

So if you look at gray matter volume, for example, gray matter volume across age from age four to 22 years increases during childhood, which is what you can see on this graph. It peaks in early adolescence.

Too many government scientists are leaving their jobs at the peak of their careers they cease to function.

The peaks that don't come out of the water are the seamounts.

And probably the pinnacle for education is getting you to college.

They're up at Camp Four, and you can see that there's wind blowing off the summit.

There is no trajectory of progress. There's no pyramid that conveniently places Victorian England at the apex and descends down the flanks to the so called primitives of the world.

It's the pinnacle, it's the final product that the universe has produced.

There's only one third as much oxygen at the summit as there is at sea level.

But you'll notice we're not at the top of the mountain yet.

I have been to the mountain top, and I have seen the Promised Land.

This is all you've got. You're very exposed on the summit ridge.

Near the summit, temperatures can be 40 degrees below zero.

And then Camp Four is the highest camp that's 3,000 feet short of the summit.

They started low, they skyrocketed, they peaked up there in 2003, and now they are down.

We can see our way now, clear to the top of that mountain.

And what they found is that, if you start running the marathon at age 19, you will get progressively faster, year by year, until you reach your peak at age 27.

That gives you an idea of just how severe things are near the summit.

Observatory Drive and Crest Place. Looks like housebreaking.

This is about 1990 peak of the crack epidemic.

This event was seen as the pinnacle of the cold war, known as the Cuban missile crisis.

This is on the way toward the summit, on that 1,500 foot bridge.

Finally your old apartment gave me some Crestview number.

We've set 2020 as our target year for zero, for reaching the top, the summit of Mount Sustainability.

Today, the top few players still earn a very good living, but less than at the peak. Meanwhile, in real (inflation adjusted) terms, second tier players earn much less money from tournaments and exhibitions than they did in the 1970 s.

When I reach the summit of a steep mountain in the middle of nowhere, I feel young, invincible, eternal.