line of ascent

I leant against a rock and watched Will choose his line of ascent.

I passed through the bedroom to the back door and studied the rear stairs, letting my eye follow the line of ascent.

His memory provided the natural line of ascent, but only his body could learn the way by following that line.

In one place a narrow ledge had been chopped artificially to an especially rich deposit far to the right of the main line of ascent.

On easy but long rock descents the routefinding can be bewildering, even when you are simply trying to reverse your line of ascent.

From 1965, Argentine rock, with a solid line of ascent and evolution, became the most important rock movement in the Spanish-speaking world.

Line of Ascent (3:52)

The most direct line of ascent is arguably from Finestrat, starting at Font del Molí, heading towards the mountain's south face.

Even if neither of her sons actually got to the throne, their chil- dren would remain in the line of ascent, and so on throughout the coming generations.

Lanty Scar provides the obvious line of ascent from Rydal, while the spur rising over Todd Crag leads up from Clappersgate.

The only practicable line of ascent for walkers is along the ridge, either from the end at Deepdale Bridge, or cutting up the southern side from Cow Bridge and Brothers Water.

So it is essential to memorise your line of ascent as far as is possible, piecing together its major features and landmarks, even the times taken for each section, so as to smooth your downward passage.

Nazir Jairazbhoy, chairman of UCLA's department of ethnomusicology, characterized ragas as separated by scale, line of ascent and descent, transilience, emphasized notes and register, and intonation and ornaments.

The Lineham Creek hiking trail passes along the foot of the southern slopes of the mountain and for capable scramblers, Blakiston's rubbly but steep southern slopes provide a suitable line of ascent.

I pride myself on an ability to remember route details, but I don't think I kept to my line of ascent for more than a third of the way down the first time I did the Hornli Ridge.

A false step made by one of the party and a fall of icicles from above warned them to return to the direct line of ascent, and the traverse back to the Lion ridge was one of the greatest difficulty.

Before he was twenty (an age at which most FI drivers today are already well established in the regular line of ascent towards FI), Mario was racing several times a week - sometimes five races in a day - in whatever cars he could get his hands on: jalopies, sprints, three-quarter midgets, midgets.

He went on to explore, and reported that further progress on the correct line of ascent was blocked by ice; and then for two hours we descended, lowering ourselves by our hands from rock to rock along a boulder-strewn sweep of 4,000 feet, patched with ice and snow, and perilous from rolling stones.

The easiest way up the hill is from the north-west where the hamlet of Ardtalnaig lies by the shore of Loch Tay; the north-west ridge is a possible line of ascent and so is following the Gleann a' Chilleine to Dunan and climbing the south ridge.