1.   He closed the hatch and descended the ladder.

2.   He hated leaving her there but he descended the ladder because there was nothing else he could do.

3.   But when he looked back over his shoulder for help, Garvey too had descended his ladder and was following them into the nave.

4.   I felt as if, rung by rung, I had been descending the ladder of comfort since leaving Atlanta a week earlier.

5.   Is there any way of descending this ladder of carnage and conquest?

6.   With Armstrong leading the way, the two descended a ladder on the excursion module.