The phrase "as it ascends" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is rising or increasing in height, level, or intensity.
Example: "The temperature rises steadily as it ascends the mountain."
Alternatives: "as it rises" or "while it climbs".
The wild plot teeters as it ascends to its Grand Guignol climax – a little too in love with the decadence and grand hotels it ultimately condemns, but the point is that decadence itself is not our problem so much as the fact that we can never all practise it.
In its announcement today, Docker notes that it hired Gupta because of his "long history of scaling high-growth companies" that "will serve Docker as it ascends into the next phase of its rapid development".
This paper describes a mathematical model of the axon of the cerebellar granule cell as it ascends into the molecular layer and branches into its two parallel fiber segments.
Because the wing cannot lift itself without electricity, it looks oddly inert as it ascends.
It turns silver as it ascends, shooting a shining shaft of light over the waves.
For example, a droplet being carried up from the cloud base grows as it ascends by sweeping up smaller droplets.
But finally a jetliner gunned its way forward, the plane gleaming upward as it ascended from what is arguably now the nation's safest yet most forlorn airport.
The swastika came down as quickly as it ascended.
Could the borough's new status vanish as quickly as it ascended?
As it ascended into heaven, the sun was behind it, and it made a big dark streak across the sky.
One of them, "Stash," breezed from a Latin-jazz-tinged melody to busy cacophony, and the band members grinned wider and wider as it ascended.
