| HITAWALL | Reach the limit |
| TOPOUT | Reach the limit |
| MAX | Reach the limit, with "out" |
| MAXOUT | Reach the limit of, slangily |
| SCOTT | WWT Slimbridge founder who designed the WWF panda logo and created the IUCN red list; an Olympic sailing medallist whose father died attempting to be the first to reach the South Pole (5) |
| SEOUL | South Korea's 2002 World Cup hopes were finally dashed in the semi-finals by Germany at the stadium in this city (though they had become the first Asian team to reach the final four) |
| GETAT | Reach the broken gate at the end of the street (3,2) |
| BUNNYAUSTIN | The last Briton to reach the final of the men's singles at Wimbledon until Andy Murray did so in 2012 (5,6) |
| BALBOA | Vasco Nunez de ---, Spanish explorer and the first European to reach the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean in 1513 (6) |
| NANSEN | Fridtjof, Norwegian explorer who tried to reach the North Pole on the ship Fram in the 1890s (6) |
| EXPOSURE | In photography, which word indicates the amount of light allowed to reach the film (or sensor)? (8) |
| ATTAINT | Reach the parting of the ways? Convict of treason (7) |
| HILLARY | One of the first humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest (7) |
| MOUNTAINEER | Climber such as Maurice Herzog who, in 1950, became the first person to reach the summit of a peak o |
| ROALD | Norwegian explorer and navigator who was the first man to reach the South Pole (5,8) |
| AMUNDSEN | Norwegian explorer and navigator who was the first man to reach the South Pole (5,8) |
| ALPHABET | All the letters reach the mountain house first, with help (8) |
| KRAKENS | Legendary sea monsters resembling giant squids, said to be big enough to reach the top of a sailing ship's main mast and to dwell off the coast of Norway (7) |
| SIREDMUND | With Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, he was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest, ... Hillary (3,6) |
| CAMEL | You reach the acme at 50 in the desert (5) |
