November 1: They battle with the first traverse pitch, hoping to win.

They begin by lobbing hand-grenades over the first traverse into the first bay.

After another pitch we climbed together to the first traverse.

November 9: Jorgeson battles with the first traverse pitch and makes some valuable refinements to the sequence.

Pitch 14, the first traverse pitch and one of the crux pitches, gave Ondra trouble during this time.

Second, these two made the first traverse of a great Himalayan peak, ascending on one side and descending another.

In order to exert any intracellular effects, these plasma-derived RONS must first traverse a major barrier in the cell membrane.

The first traverse was three pitches long and led to a three-pitch calf burning ice slope, then onto another horrid traverse.

Over the next three days, they completed the first traverse of the two Witches Tits, Cat's Ears Spire, and Devils Thumb.

There was the story of the first traverse of Borneo, a 1,000-mile 43-day trek with Long and Jim Slade.

Two more 5.14+ pitches remain: the first traverse pitch and the Dyno Pitch, with its now-famous eight-foot sideways leap.

A pair of Korean climbers has completed the first traverse of 26,660-foot Nanga Parbat in Pakistan since the Messner brothers' infamous climb in 1970.

The distance seemed far greater than when they had first traversed it.

Thorpe found the woods very different from when he had first traversed them.

But though he turned round, he could not find the sandy plain they had first traversed on leaving the ship.