uphill

Penelope sounded more stern than usual, for her new hiking boots were beginning to pinch, and the trail had been going uphill for some time now.

I strode slightly uphill past five houses and St. James United Methodist Church, where we worshipped, to the corner of Barton Road.

But the film's success was not guaranteed and Cho says she felt the team making it were "sometimes facing an uphill battle".

From this evidence, researchers concluded that the ancestors of modern Mountain Pygmy-possums probably followed rainforest habitats uphill during a warm and wet phase in the Pleistocene Epoch.

“Sometimes when you’re creating something, it feels like you’re rubbing against something or you’re pushing something uphill. But with this project, it didn’t feel like that. It was flowing naturally,” said Twigs.