The way now led, by a gentle ascent, carpeted with fresh green grass, to the church at Winkelmatten.

It is a very gentle ascent until you reach the fifth kilometer.

It didn't help F'lar's temper to realize that Mnementh was making a gentle ascent.

As I make the gentle ascent to the start of the four-mile course I have to admit I'm slightly apprehensive.

All three planes began a gentle ascent, eventually reaching about 31,000 feet in skies that Mr. van Kirk said were perfectly clear.

Some gentle ascents alternate with level stretches before a last ascent into the small, viewless summit clearing.

The gentle ascent makes for an easy climb from the east with less danger from avalanche than on many other fourteeners.

We traveled in safety down this depression to its mouth, and thence by a gentle ascent approached the Court House.

An hour later, the mountains flatten out and we start an unexpectedly gentle ascent to the Tibetan plateau.

The gentle ascent turned to a scramble over a bare, vertiginous sheet of rock with the deep blue sea twinkling beneath.