ASCENT

• Acclivity

• Attempt to reach the summit

• Balloonist's beginning

• Blastoff follower

• Bronowski's The ___ of Man

• Climb

• Climber's task

• Elevation

• Flight start

• Going up a track (6)

• Half a mountaineering expedition

• Half of a mountaineering trip

• Inclination

• Journey up a mountain

• Lift-off

• Mongolfiers' achievement

• Mountaineer's effort

• Mountaineer's goal

• Mountaineer's progress

• Move up

• Rise

• Rise of a perfume

• Rising movement

• Takeoff

• Trip to a summit

• Trip to the Mount Everest summit, say

• Trip to the summit

• Trip to the top

• Trip up

• Trip up a mountain

• Upgrade

• Uphill climb

• Upward climb

• Upward incline

• Upward mobility

• Upward movement

• Upward movement or aroma?

• Upward path

• Upward slope

• Upward trail

• Way to the throne

• Way up

• What a chairlift helps with

• A movement upward

• The act of changing location in an upward direction

• An upward slope or grade (as in a road)