descended

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Thrall described tough conditions, sharing his oxygen cylinder with the Pole as they descended, taking 11 hours to get to Camp Three.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

In the video he recalled that Dawa Sherpa had "sat down for a rest with his backpack" as they descended from Camp 4, the highest campsite before the summit.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

Protesters descended on Delaney Hall, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Newark, N.J., this weekend.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

As a massive influx of white Midwesterners descended on L.A. after the 1885 opening of the Santa Fe railroad, conservative white civic leaders — including the owners of the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

The chivalrous puffin lost himself in imagining his heroic death, unaware that the great black-backed gull had descended from the sky.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el