It was built to be wide enough for horse riders to ascend the hill without dismounting.

The route heads through wooded areas of homes and makes a hairpin turn to the northwest to ascend a hill.

This engine, the first in the world to ascend a hill by its own power, proved that a steam locomotive could climb a grade while pulling a load.

The path ascending the hill passes through many old gates and cuts through natural ledges of rock like a staircase, with precipitous sides.

Many buildings on campus incorporate lifts and bridges designed to provide shortcuts in ascending the hill.

Like countless others, his family grabbed a few possessions and a small amount of food and began to ascend the mountain.

These centers are located at the 6 mile, 12mi km and the summit itself, and there are several ways to ascend the mountain.

It takes an estimated 3 hours to ascend the mountain.

Climbers typically take two to four weeks to ascend the mountain.

Leaving the bar behind, they ascend the mountain and each have personal symbolic visions representing each character's worst fears and obsessions.

To ascend the peak, only the strongest five of the nine-member team will be selected.

Crowds of hikers steadily increased throughout the 1970s, causing the club to consider closing what had long been one of the easiest ways to ascend the peak.

They ascended the peak via the northwest ridge approaching from the northeast.

Police concluded that she had positioned herself so that the next person to ascend the staircase would be 'shocked into responding'.

In one scene, the camera appears to ascend the staircase at a rapid rate.

Once within the left-hand maisonette, a reassuringly practical corridor leads from the elegantly-proportioned drawing room to the well-appointed kitchen/breakfast room, before ascending a staircase to a helpful utility room.

Ascending the staircase are bronze railings with mahogany banisters.

We rejoin the man as he ascends the staircase to the upper bedroom in the house, leaving the sea star at the foot of the stairs.

But many of those eager to clamber on to or ascend the ladder are unable to proceed as a result of the continuing shortage of mortgage funds.

They may be spirits guarding the foot and center of the ladder going up the skyworld, seeing to it that mortals do not ascend this ladder.

Effortlessly, she ascends the ladder of fame and fortune.

On ascending the ladder and crawling inside, smoke from the hearth stings the eyes.

She ascended the stairs quickly, aerially, as in a dream.

One health physicist and two firefighters ascended the stairs and, from the top, could see damage in the reactor room.

Able-bodied guests had to ascend the stairs to sit in the middle of the risers in order to have a comfortable line-of-sight with the screen.

One ritual involved seven princes with milk offerings who ascended the stairs with 20 female shamans and offered prayers, sprinkling the statues with the sacred milk.

Laughing derisively, she ascends the stairs again.

The marble steps soon became a pilgrimage site, with worshippers ascending the steps on their knees, praying as they went.

Either you ascend the steps to the main floor and into a pine-panelled lobby feeling like a cigar box.

You ascend the steps of a temple.

He ascended the steps accompanied by the highest-ranking warriors.

When a human being ascends the steps of the pyramid, he reaches self-actualization.