"ascend a mountain" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to climb or go up a mountain. Example: We started early in the morning to ascend the mountain, carefully navigating our way through the rocky terrain. It was a challenging climb, but the breathtaking views from the top made it all worth it.
"If you climb up one crag at a time, you can always ascend a mountain".
Tells a man how to behave on a ferryboat, how to ascend a mountain, and the duties of a gentleman at picnics, etc.
Anyone who yearns to walk beside the sea, or to ascend a mountain, or to row across a lake, owes a great debt to these two English poets.
Yet as she beheld the chocolate-colored face, and the faces of her own family -- Tecla, her husband, Ira, and son, Louis -- sitting in the pew, she also felt the exhilaration of having ascended a mountain.
Until about 12 30 a.m., when the heater in our condo started emitting a horrible high-pitched whine, a keening sound that rose in pitch, as though ascending a mountain of sound before abruptly falling off a cliff.
A Portuguese bandeirante, or "soldier of fortune," described how, "after a long and troublesome peregrination, incited by the insatiable greed of gold," he and his men had ascended a mountain path and seen a spellbinding vista: below them were the ruins of an ancient city.
Near the end, Plumpp deftly switches registers, cutting short his airy reverie ("As the poet in your veins / ascends a mountain. To / trap the condor of your being. / As you soar") to ask an earthy question: You were born with blues.
Subjects, all members of a medical research expedition, were studied at baseline and increasing altitudes as they ascended a mountain in the Himalayas (Cho Oyu, 8,201 m).
There wasn't anything that could stop me from shimmying through caves, scaling subterranean waterfalls, or rising with the sun to ascend a 2,500-foot 2,500-foot
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A beginner mountaineer should always ascend an "easy" mountain to begin with, while still taking all necessary precautions because a mountain is still a mountain, no matter how "easy" it is considered.
