That would indeed not do for hand-over-hand climbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roc and a Hard Place]

She came back hand-over-hand to where we were floating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forever Free]

And hand-over-hand with ice axes is the way they climb up.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2006] Reference

I clambered down the steps hand-over-hand, feeling athletic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forever Free]

He redoubled his efforts, pulling in the rope hand-over-hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanctuary] Reference

Mahallan had been doing a hand-over-hand walk along the struts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sun of Suns] Reference

How deep was this tunnel? he wondered, descending hand-over-hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Magic] Reference

Chloe climbs hand-over-hand up the curdled lining of her own throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fight Club]

She led him down a short passage, hand-over-hand along the null-gee rungs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burning Bridge] Reference

With repeated grunting and effort, the Khitan went hand-over-hand up the rope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan and the Emerald Lotus]

Then down he went, hand-over-hand, just as he so often did at school in the gym.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Have A Mystery To Solve]

Garth and the other man grabbed the wheel handle and began to turn it hand-over-hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

She will also cover surprisingly large distances hand-over-hand along the side of the pool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reverse psychology?] Reference

The two of them pulled themselves hand-over-hand toward it, reaching it at the same instant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Werehunter]

He patted the precious cargo at his hip, smiled, and began to go hand-over-hand up the chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chainer's Torment]

Sadd and I began a hand-over-hand clutch of the railing like a pair of superannuated mountaineers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Working Murder]

He turned and did a hand-over-hand walk through a narrow passage under the centrifuge, heading for the prow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sun of Suns] Reference

He gripped the long looping webline more tightly and began pulling himself toward the Vulture hand-over-hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sinister Six Combo]

In turn, this leads to other advances in related technologies; a steady hand-over-hand technological progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Apollo XIII Mission] Reference

When they move, they do so with slow deliberate hand-over-hand movements, moving along as easily under a branch as above.    From Wordnik.com.  [What In Tarnation Am I?] Reference

Ilna ran three steps to pull the lich off its feet; the halter was too short for her to take another hand-over-hand grab on her end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

You can ascend or climb a rope with mechanical ascenders or prusik loops, or do so hand-over-hand if you are in high school gym class.    From Wordnik.com.  [#23 into the crapometer] Reference

A hand-over-hand journey down a narrow tube brings me to a near-empty carousel; a quick spin, then I'm deposited in a disembarkment area.    From Wordnik.com.  [A King of Infinite Space]

Trevor swore under his breath, put the "AV" down, and worked his way hand-over-hand up the rope to the stallion's head to try and calm it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chrome Borne]

Harbour the leaders gained on the hares, hand-over-hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton] Reference

The others came down the rope hand-over-hand, Grim last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimgrim and Allah's Peace] Reference

Must have been making money hand-over-hand when the collapse came.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dop Doctor] Reference

Look, my captain bold, we are coming up to the convoy hand-over-hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [As We Sweep Through The Deep] Reference

This brought them up with the boat hand-over-hand, as it is called; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet] Reference

If you stop too soon, you will be pulling yourself hand-over-hand to the platform.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

Carson called, coiling in hand-over-hand on the slack of the rope which Smoke's rush gave him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoke Bellew] Reference

But three mighty Dutchmen came down hand-over-hand to the defence of their brave admiral's ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [As We Sweep Through The Deep] Reference

Feeling like he's hiking up a sand dune, he starts pulling himself hand-over-hand up the fixed lines on the mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Although mostly used for windlass or capstan, Sir Walter Runciman tells me that he frequently sang to it for 'hand-over-hand' hauling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties] Reference