2 the fact of starting to become successful:
His ascent to power was rapid and unexpected.
The findings have demonstrated that practical escape training greatly increases the prospects of safe ascents at sea.
Ascents have to be mastered with affixed ski fells, that have to be removed for the descents and refixed for the following ascents.
No other written accounts of monastic life or ascents survive.
He became a professional balloonist and had made 200 ascents by 1835.
The mountain is notoriously difficult and has seen very few successful ascents.
There was some rolling terrain in the middle of the stage, yet none of the ascents were categorised.
From 1989 through 1997, he made 18 successful ascents of peaks above 8000 m.
In recent summers a tethered balloon has been placed near the bandstand, offering ascents to sightseers.