Sentence examples for had been climbed from inspiring English sources

By 1862 more than 40 peaks with elevations exceeding 18,000 feet (5,500 metres) had been climbed for surveying purposes.

Back in my 20s, I thought I'd grown up in California too late — after all the mountains had been climbed and all the good surf breaks discovered.

When Harding began climbing in the early 1950s, Rowell said, virtually none of the major rock faces in North America had been climbed.

In the early 1970s the Mount Kenya National Park Mountain Rescue Team was formed, and by the end of the 1970s all major routes on the peaks had been climbed.

He had been climbing toward the masthead light.

In 1988 the nation's crime rate had been climbing for years, and the climate of fear had been climbing even faster.

He had been climbing Mount Adatara with a 64-year-old man who was unhurt, NHK reported.

Davidson and Smith were believed to be friends who had been climbing together recreationally.

Inmates have not found much recourse recently, even though their numbers had been climbing for decades.

It has been climbed only twice before.

So far, every hurdle has been climbed.