When Andy Schleck was asked about the importance of today's stage of the Tour de France, which culminates with the ascent of the legendary Tourmalet climb deep in the Pyrenees, the 25-year-old contender could not have been clearer.
Every time he speaks, he climbs deeper into the recesses of her handbag economics, preaching thrift and a bonfire of public spending.
It was as if they had climbed deep inside their guitars, finding threats and exaltations.
Ms. Mirren's queen sheds a few too, but having climbed deep inside Elizabeth II, a vessel as heavily fortified as a gunship, she also coolly takes her character apart from the inside out, piece by machined piece.
The Nascar driver Jeff Gordon vowed to grow a mustache if he managed to climb from deep in the standings to earn a berth in this year's Chase for the Sprint Cup.
On March 19 , 1957 he saw a skier's promised land when Earl Eaton, a sometime uranium prospector, took him on a seven-hour climb through deep snow to the summit of a mountain whose bulk had not been visible from the valley below.
A number of tanks had emerged from the woods and begun climbing the deep quarry by the opposite side of the road.
They lined the climbs six and seven deep, waving pints, phones and flags so that at times the riders seemed to be pedalling through a sea of colour and cheers.
Marcin Gala, a Polish veteran, who climbed the deepest cave system then known, in the French Alps, when he was seventeen.
