They had a stiff climb to get to the top again.

But it was a long and stiff climb to their base.

It was a stiff climb, but not too difficult.

They settled into the stiff climb to the levels where Barbara's technical teams were working.

A hike and stiff climb up the mountain ridges followed.

Shortly, the level track gives way to a stiff climb, and the little engine must really work to get you up the grade.

The path to the terrace requires a stiff climb and a good head for heights.

It brought them at last, up a stiff climb, to the home the Falconers had made for themselves in their exile.

The Caribs presumably didn't notice what a stiff climb it is.

Retief scanned the slope above; he had a stiff climb ahead.

However, the sides of the knoll were sloping and covered with green grass, so there was a stiff climb before them yet.

But it was a stiff climb and a slow business, for they had to make sure that they were on the track of the stag.

It is then a stiff climb over shattered quartzite to reach Conival's highest point.

He must have had a stiff climb of it--1 should say it was almost impossible."

They then had a stiff climb - Jill fell once - up very rough ground for about a hundred yards, and came to a second ledge.

The trail to it is a fairly stiff climb about a mile in length and only fly fishing is permitted.

Not of old had he known shortness of breath such as this, and muscles that so easily tired at a stiff climb.

It is perched atop a high moraine mound at an elevation of 8,060 feet, and the final stiff climb left us breathless.

He started slowly toward Up-Mile Hill, dreading the stiff climb in this heat.

Conditions deteriorate at the crossing of Buttermere Moss, followed by a stiff climb to the summit.

There's a stiff climb over here."

Even those who arrive by train must face a stiff climb up 365 leg-breaking brick steps that zigzag back and forth in hairpin turns.

That's a stiff climb ahead."

Then came a stiff climb toward the zenith of the pyramid ship-to Launch Deck Four.

It was a stiff climb and both men were panting as they skulked along the ridge to the brink of the curving cliffs called "the Rope."