Sentence examples for alpine pass from inspiring English sources

For some riders, it seemed more daunting than even an Alpine pass.

A great champion like Greg LeMond could witness Armstrong barreling up some Alpine pass and insist that no human could possibly climb at that rate without doping.

Not the steepest or the longest of ascents, but when you climb Box Hill nine times you have ridden the equivalent of a major Alpine pass.

She single-handedly persuaded a whole garrison of Polish conscripts into the Wehrmacht, on a key Alpine pass, to surrender to the Allies.

Unless they are strung out over an Alpine pass, the skeletally thin cyclists with their farmers' tans take only a couple of minutes to pass.

Not in the way that coal mining is exhausting, or dragging the body of your frozen companion over an icy Alpine pass is exhausting, but it's demanding, nonetheless.

Then he had managed to traverse several Alpine passes.

The Celts began to open the high Alpine passes for trade routes.

I was climbing the great alpine passes of the Tour de France.

Crossing the Alpine passes, the drivers were greeted along the way with festive receptions.

The Tour offers every motoring environment from Alpine passes to autoroutes, and Le Bimmer loved them all.