"steep pass" can be a correct and usable phrase in written English
It typically refers to a narrow and sharply inclined path or road that leads to a higher altitude or mountain pass. Example sentence: The hikers were exhausted after traversing the steep pass, but the breathtaking view at the summit made it all worth it.
Punchok has brought his horse along, in case anyone gets tired, and hugs each of us individually every time we make it to the top of a steep pass.
Reaching it from the condo zone requires a drive north over a steep pass, a detour on the battered road towards the nudist beach of Irakli, then a second detour on a far worse road over a mountain.
Rugged hills and steep passes divided villages.
The trek to the base of the fifth highest mountain in the world leads from dense rain forests over steep passes, to high pastures below glacier-clad peaks.
It includes a group of inland valleys, a coastal plain separated by low mountains that are interspersed with steep passes, an arc of still higher mountains, and a long seacoast.
But as I hiked to Hongu Taisha the next day – climbing 15 miles of mercilessly steep passes – I wondered if there was more to the metaphor then just numbers.
After signing up, Mr. Leja looked on Facebook for Ms. Purcell, who was in charge of getting the team into shape for a three-day 157-mile charity ride through two steep passes in the Rockies.
He was better prepared than most of the prospectors who made the appalling journey up from the sea to the gold fields, but after trudging up the steep passes and building a boat to carry their supplies into the wild, he grew sick from scurvy.
In June, 60 drivers took theirs through the Rocky Mountains, where they climbed and descended steep passes, suffering setbacks no more serious than the occasional overheated radiator.
How did 312 hours of being shower-less, laughing in negative 40 degrees, and mule-ing up steep passes become life's work for this city girl?
The going soon got tougher, the moderately steep path passing through large sections of downed birch, pine, and spruce that had been thoughtfully chainsawed and removed from the trail by volunteers from the Adirondack Mountain Club.
