"winds upward" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe a winding or twisting motion in an upward direction. Example: The narrow staircase winds upward, leading to a small room at the top of the tower.
Apartment windows in high-rises are designed to withstand winds upward of the strength we will see in this storm.
As the road winds upward, the terrain thins out into wooded hills dotted with bungalows, with rusting Cadillacs parked outside.
The road winds upward, past the Putz 'n Glo mini-golf, through the town of Keystone, once home to miners and now to olde stores.
Near the lounge, where guests help themselves to coffee and tea, a somber wood stairway winds upward against an exposed stone wall.
BALAKOT, Pakistan — The rocky trail to the spot where war almost broke out between Pakistan and India winds upward through alpine meadows dotted with grazing cows.
One is transparent, housing a mini-rain forest around which a metal ramp winds upward, leading out of the heavy undergrowth into a realm where birds and butterflies fly freely.
CASBAH-LIKE alleys lined with stone houses wound upward toward hills cloaked in pine and cypress trees.
Ornate rock formations wind upward toward a bright surface, then lure me down into a murky darkness.
A stairwell wound upward near an open elevator shaft, and Burtynsky ran up, but after climbing six flights he decided that there was an easier way.
As you wind upward, the work also suggests an unusually full-bodied sundial or ritual marker, the still point of a sacred site.
After loading into a company van, they'll wind upward into the Santa Cruz Mountains above the Pacific Ocean, park, and enter a stand of redwoods and oak on foot.
