Williams explains that climate zones are stacked up the slope like layers of a cake.
Nine crampon-footed hikers crunch up the slope of Athabasca Glacier before stopping to catch their vaporous breath.
At the edge of the clearing a pregnant cow was lurching up the slope, its eyes wild with terror.
Perhaps he would explain why he was guiding the cow up the slope.
The fire grows louder, popping and snorting as it gallops up the slope.
It seemed, for a moment, as he charged up the slope, that he might just make it in time.
It is perhaps no accident that up the slope sits the Yarai stage of the leading school of Noh theatre.
So the people dragged the lifeboat all the way back round up the slope and over the moor and launched it there.
Or maybe it all started when the car backed up the slope of the driveway and the tires bumped over the sidewalk between the knee-high pricker hedges.
He planted beech saplings in a well-spaced circle and, according to one story, then carried bottles of water up the slope to irrigate his saplings daily on that arid summit.
Directing our eyes up the slope, we see the monastery complex's 12-story tumble of geometry come into focus: the Little Potala, as it is called, after the original in Lhasa, all stepped roofs and cantilevered walls, scaling the crag like a fairy-tale medieval fortress.
Back on the stretch of freshly paved road, the team's ironmonger wiped his sweaty palms on his thick leather apron, then retrieved a lunch box from the bullock-cart piled with welding gear and scrambled up the slope to get a better view of the proceedings.
In short it will take a miracle to send the stock back up the slippery slope it is sliding down.
Instead, 3D printers are now starting to work their way up the "slope of enlightenment" stage, where most progress is achieved.
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Grapes Hill on the inner city ring road was closed for several hours as vehicles struggled to get up its steep slope.
Lorna Gillin lives on Long John Hill, on the outskirts of Norwich, and said traffic struggled to get up its steep slope during the afternoon.
High up a steep slope near the top of the village, municipal leader Jamal Hezhal(ph) sits with family members and discusses Hezbollah's tricky relationship with the Lebanese state and its citizenry.
Luck may take you up to the head of the curve, but you can be a happy storyteller earning a decent wage without having to climb up that steep slope to the top.
No sooner had I given up on the prospect of service and instead begun to lazily jot down some notes in my journal, than a cleaning man would slope up and inquire what I wanted.
On either side of the road, up the green slope and down on the lake side, turnouts and driveways for lovely inns, kooky ersatz Austrian mini-villages, hip coffee houses and eccentric galleries appear invitingly like pictures in a pop-up book.
And there are companies other than BP that are up on the North Slope, so their jobs should not be affected.
At dusk that second day I followed a hollowed path that wound up the wooded scarp slope of the downs east of Storrington.
"With the crater rim slope to the north and Mount Sharp to the south, we may be seeing more of the wind blowing along the depression in between the two slopes, rather than up and down the slope of Mount Sharp, " said Claire Newman, a REMS investigator at Ashima Research in Pasadena.
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The sediment grains bouncing along the bed get pushed up the rearward-facing slope (stoss) and then avalanche down the other side (lee).
If air movement up and down the mountain's slope governed wind direction, dominant winds generally would be north-south.
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When it comes time to descend, there are two ways down: walk back down along the crest you climbed up or sand-ski down the slope.
Lee Westwood got off to a terrible start Thursday when his approach shot ended up at the bottom of such a slope on No. 1.
My car was enveloped by the waves... luckily when the water receded, I managed to start it up and revved it to a hill slope about 100m from my house.
The North Slope natural gas hydrates make up 11.5 percent of the volume of gas within all other undiscovered, technically recoverable gas resources in the United States -- frozen or not, the USGS estimated.
Sure, bonds have generated strong returns since then but that is partly because interest rates have been on a steady downward slope to zero, pushing up the value of bonds even as each new crop yields less.
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