Sentence examples for great climb from inspiring English sources

That was to be his last great climb, Mr. Roberts said.

Estes Park abounds with great climbing routes for every skill level.

Her place now is to be a habitat for others, a great climbing frame, and every now and then she will offer up a reward.

Since his great climbs, he's crossed the Antarctic and the Gobi desert and has even done a five-year stint as an Italian MEP for the Greens.

And you've got so much new territory, so many trail sports and great climbing, all within minutes of each other".

But (a) tradition and superstition and (b) it's just great training to go there for three or four days with great climbs that we don't have in Girona.

It seems almost unnatural: when so many great climbs have been attempted out of jingoism or personal egotism, he appears to have become a climber purely for the physical and mental challenge.

That had been 450 miles of hard riding from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, over many of the great climbs of the Pyrenees, and I'd never heard Nigel complain once.

Jenkin Road, Sheffield The great climbs of the Tour de France are easy to name: the 14km rise to the Alpe d'Huez ski resort; the lunar slopes of Mont Ventoux in Provence.

In both he was associated with Louis Lachenal, perhaps the most remarkable of his contemporaries of the French school and his constant companion on the great climbs, a queer passionate brilliant man, who survived the desperate triumph on Annapurna, mutilated by frostbite, to die irrelevantly in an accidental fall into a hidden crevasse, while skiing.

British Cycling and the scene in Britain is changed out of all recognition to that which lay ahead of me as a 12 year old, dreaming of riding the great climbs and perhaps getting a coloured T-shirt or two along the way.