They've carved steps in it but watch it.

That done, he started carving steps down one side of the figure.

Some of the earliest climbers, defeated by an extraordinarily smooth band of granite only about 3m high, resorted to carving steps into the rock with a hammer and chisel.

They had carved steps to let them dig the grave deeper.

No other creatures would carve steps.

You're carving steps?

Enormous tsunamis presumably from the volcanoes on the Canary Islands carved great steps on the coast.

Into that spot somebody, maybe the four from the original expedition, had carved well-worn steps that switched back all the way down to the beach.

Scheer grunted again and carved a rectangular opening in the side facing the slope on which he had begun earlier to carve steps.

Or maybe they carved steps out of the rock.