(1) With the help of a mechanical ascender , guides and novice climbers creep up ropes like inchworms into the forest canopy.(2) The weakest point in this guy rope setup is the cam on the ascender .(3) Within each triplet set, the items were matched for rhyme and whether the initial letter was an ascender , descender, or x-height.(4) Perhaps we are all graphologists to a certain degree and can detect a person's character in their script: the thickness or thinness of the line, how circular or how angular the curves, how high the ascenders and how low the descenders.(5) I flex my fingers and grab the two metal ascenders clamped to my climbing rope.(6) The group logo comprises a giraffe, the animal rendered as if cut out from paper, lettered in a rounded classical font with exaggerated ascenders on the letter u2018fu2019.(7) Well, I like ITC Garmond because of the large x-height and shortened ascenders and descenders.(8) I undid my waist belt and slid off my pack, unhooked myself from the sled, unclipped my harness from the rope, unclipped the rope from the ascenders , unsnapped both feet from my skis, and walked back down the glacier.(9) Climbing is done by alternately moving two or three ascenders up the rope.(10) There are loops on the ascenders and descenders, except for lower case u2018tu2019 letters and some u2018d' letters, which are straight.