Sentence examples for scale a rock from inspiring English sources

Today, you can run through the same field, scale a rock wall aptly named Planet of the Apes and stand in the spot where Heston's character was caged.

It is possible to eat, shop, go to school, bank, work out, scale a rock-climbing wall and pray there, all without leaving the grounds.

Nor do they have to scale a rock-climbing wall or get straight A's.

"Awesome," said Charles, looking like a character from the Flintstones as he scaled a rock twice his size.

It also meant scaling a rock formation near the top, the Second Step, in the way Mallory and Irving would have had to do it — without the benefit of a metal ladder that for years has been giving climbers a leg up.

Every day the team had to rig up ropes to scale a steep rock bluff and then hike all the necessary tools, water and plaster up the rest of the ridge.

7 P.M. (CBS) 60 MINUTES: GOING TO EXTREMES In three segments about those willing to risk their lives for the thrill of it, Steve Kroft watches men don wing suits and glide from mountaintops at 140 miles an hour, Anderson Cooper swims unprotected with a South African diver among great white sharks, and Lara Logan watches a climber scale a 1,600-foot 1,600-footwith his hands and feet.

I think the rock star idea started in the 50s, was more sophisticated in the 60s, became kind of clever and complicated in the 70s, became hugely popular in the 80s, and then kind of collapsed under the sheer scale of expectations a rock star in the late 80s and 90s faced.

Try the impossible task of scaling a sheer rock face with no hand- or footholds.

Every pillar that is developed, or stope that is mined, represents a full-scale test of a rock mechanics design.

I don't think that VR should be limited to small-scale environments like a rock wall or office or cockpit — but those do nicely as tutorials that teach what makes such environments engaging.