Sentences with phrase «vertical climbing»

It is both challenging and picturesque, a nearly vertical climb of 330 meters.

Apes have feet that are modified to support their large bodies and to facilitate vertical climbing, thus allowing them to feed, nest, and seek safety in trees.

«As suburban sprawl is replaced with vertical climbing, what will the future of America look like, and what part would we like to play in it as artists and as citizens?»

600 - metre vertical climb near Salave just five miles outside of Geneva, Switzerland 4.

The gameplay consists of using a grappling hook for vertical climbing or for grappling onto planes that the player can ride, then jump off and use their wingsuit to glide across the landscape before deploying their parachute to land near their objective.

«Don't look down» will be your mantra for this nail biter of a trek, which takes you up an exposed and nearly vertical climb of 1,000 feet on the east face of Champlain Mountain in Acadia National Park.

ramidus (bottom; reconstruction based on computed tomography rendering shown) lacked many features that have evolved for advanced vertical climbing and suspension in extant chimpanzees (pan, top left).

But that's 400m of sheer vertical climb.

Research from Washington State University found that folks who engaged in simulated vertical climbing experienced s higher max heart rate than their counterparts who slogged away on the treadmill or the rower; their V02 max was greater too.

Stage two is a 171.4 - mile (276 - km) bike ride, with total vertical climbs of 4,000 feet.

The Bowflex has more of a smooth, vertical climbing stride.

Levels vary in challenge and verticality and they differ enough to keep you on your toes and the gameplay interesting — some of the levels are incredibly tight affairs requiring precision control while others are vertical climbs presenting a different challenge entirely.

It's enough to clear the first stages, which are merely obstacle courses with few enemies, various pits, and crazy jumps that are assisted by the mushroom trampolines, but soon enough players encounter routes that require vertical climbing and also strange pink blocks that bar the way forward.

Later on the prince will have to chain these abilities (especially the sphere and hooks) to traverse seemingly - impassible sections; the trick is that you can not have more than one of a given power active at one time and there's a slight lag before you can reactivate them, so you can't just keep making spheres over and over or spirit hook your way up a crazy vertical climb.

A yellow beanstalk makes a frenzied vertical climb, snagging a golden crown with blue jewel as it grows.

None of the changes that apes have evolved to stiffen their hands for suspension and vertical climbing were present, so its locomotion did not resemble that of any living ape.

You will want to check to see if the vertical climbing machine you'll be using can adjust for a perfect fit for your body type before clambering aboard.

High - Intensity Interval Training Workouts: Because the vertical climbing machines are a thorough workout for your muscles and your cardiovascular system, many climbers prefer the high - intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts.

Shot partially on the Greek islands of Skopelos and Skiathos, there isn't a young bride alive who won't dream of perching on a donkey for the near - vertical climb to a tiny white - washed cliff - top chapel whose doors frame an Aegean sunset to say «I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do.»

of torque are enough for anything short of a vertical climb, but the new WFJ snorkel intake system allows the PacWest Adventure Sorento to be a land - based submersible.

It starts its journey in Zermatt and takes 33 minutes to reach the summit of the Gornergrat — a vertical climb of nearly 5,000 feet.

While felines are designed for leaping and vertical climbing, island foxes have somewhat weak legs.

Not to mention those vertical climbing levels where even if the ground was two feet below you, if you didn't see it, you died.

Additionally, there are all sorts of death - dealing pits, vertical climbs, and other impassable obstacles, so players must skillfully draw paths throughout to carry Kirby around and hopefully not let him fall, and must be careful to not exceed the line drawing limit or risk letting the pink puff fall to his death.

Since then, games like Castlevania and Metroid expanded on the exploration aspect of the platforming genre, creating panning views of an entire level, from left - to - right, and most notably, vertical climbs.

In one instance, after repeatedly failing a seemingly impossible jump onto a near vertical climb the sense of achievement when I finally conquered it was a scene of unbridled triumph.

Super Tiny Leap takes this idea, an old school aesthetic, and turns it towards the vertical climbing genre that Doodle Jump popularized all those years...

... A woman's life is a horizontal journey rather than a vertical climb.»

The company conducted over 1,000 test flights with human passengers, including a 984 - foot (300 - meter) vertical climb, a weight test carrying over 500 pounds (230 kilograms), a routed test flight covering 9.3 miles (15 kilometers), and a high - speed cruising test that reached 80.7 mph (130 km / h).

Your career ladder is simply the vertical climb up the corporate ladder.