Sentence examples for miles climbed from inspiring English sources

In one week I walked about 50 miles, climbed 80 floors (the software makes this fun by informing you that you've climbed the equivalent of, say, the Leaning Tower of Pisa) and lost nearly three pounds without changing my diet.

Available seat miles climbed 13.7% while the quarter's load factor slipped to 72.5% from 76.3% from the same period in 2004.

One of the earliest accounts of Waterfall Gully comes from a "Mr Kent" who, along with Captain Collet Barker and Barker's servant, Miles, climbed Mount Lofty in 1831.

I followed this dead-end road for 25 miles, climbing 1,500ft, trying to ignore the voice that screamed: "What's the point when you've got to come all the way back?" A red stag stood on a rocky outcrop.

Shackleton then took Worsley and another crew member and trekked north for twenty-six miles, climbing over uncharted glaciers, to get to a whaling station on the island's opposite coast, where they could summon help.

On the other side of the highway, linking trails covering more than nine miles climb through redwoods, fir, laurel and other trees that cover the canyon of Russian Gulch.

The Cascade Lakes highway runs southwest out of my hometown in Bend, Oregon, for about 20 miles, climbing out of the high desert and into the mountains before it ends rather abruptly at a place where winter begins.

They gather wood, they pick the fruit from the trees, they tend their animals and their children and their husbands, and they walk for miles, climbing steep mountains with huge loads on their backs and their kids in their arms.

The matrix consists of five occupational activities typically carried out during an average working day: kneeling or squatting for more than one hour in total; lifting weights > 25 kg by hand; walking >2 miles; climbing ladders or >30 flights of stairs; and sitting >2 hours in total.

Result: Revenue per seat-mile climbed 13.8% during the fourth quarter and 9.3% for the full year.

He had six of his eight teammates with him there but they faded one by one up the 16.5-kilometer (10.3-mile) climb on a 7.1percentt gradient.