Sentence examples for were climbed from inspiring English sources

They also criticize modern Everest climbers for lacking imagination and plodding up routes that were climbed decades ago.

Until a decade or so ago, the mountains 20,000 feet (6100 meters) or higher were climbed by expeditions peopled with trained mountaineers who functioned as a team.

In the fourth stage, the Côte de Laffrey and the Col Bayard were climbed, the second and third mountains of the Tour de France.

Many new routes were climbed on Batian and Nelion in the next three decades, and in October 1959 the Mountain Club of Kenya produced their first guide to Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro.

Of the other major peaks on the Teton Range, all were climbed by the late 1930s including Mount Moran in 1922 and Mount Owen in 1930 by Fritiof Fryxell and others after numerous previous attempts had failed.

After the introduction of the Vosges in the 1905 Tour de France, in 1906 the Massif Central were climbed, followed by the Pyrenees in 1910 and the Alps in 1911.

But we were climbing Mont Blanc!

They were climbing in from the outside.

It has been climbed only twice before.

"He's climbed mountains," is the line.

"Its only purpose is to be climbed".