The phrase "ascended up" is not correct in standard written English.
The word "ascended" already implies upward movement, making "up" redundant.
Example: "The bird ascended into the sky with grace."
Alternatives: "ascended" or "rose".
But Mr. Lundberg sometimes faltered, and he sounded unusually tentative when he ascended up into falsetto.
As we ascended up over mountains and down into a deep valley, my pilot, Melissa Hough, pointed out Disappointment River.
Initial CTA with coronal reformations (a) and axial section (c) CTA demonstrated a small ulcer-like configuration (arrowhead) in the intramural haematoma that ascended up to the left subclavian artery (a).
Benzema quickly ascended up the youth categories in the academy.
"No way these nerds are leaving their parents' basements…" my roommate grumbled as we ascended up the NQR steps.
I followed Evan down a darkened corridor, the end of which held a gorgeous, glorious, waxed wooden spiral staircase that ascended up to further darkness.
So it goes, with the ages of the interpreters and the complexity of their prompts ascending up the ramp.
In summer the surefooted chamois may ascend up to the snowline; in winter they often descend to wooded regions.
Rescuers said the two climbers had been "very well equipped", but their rope reportedly undone as they were ascending up the 13,000-feet "Giant's Tooth".
The piety of the individual was directed either toward preparing himself to ascend up through the planetary spheres to the realm of the transcendent god or toward calling the transcendent god down that he might appear to him in an epiphany or vision.
In "Stairway to Heaven," also in A minor, the lower voice descends by half-steps while the upper voice ascends — up an octave to an A and then further up to B and C. Such contrary motion against a falling chromatic line itself has many precedents, from Dido's Lament to "My Funny Valentine" — and a YouTube user points out a resemblance to a seventeenth-century sonata by Giovanni Battista Granata.
