Meanings of crawling upward in English

A hundred feet below, the gully disappeared in the clouds crawling upward.

The stench of dead things came crawling upward to meet them.

It was Brian, crawling upward carefully but rapidly.

I heard another piece of the plane move, metal scraping ice, but all I could see was fog crawling upward.

She sprang to her feet, she jerked up her rifle and fired at the black bulk crawling upward in the pine.

A wild crimson blot was crawling upward rapidly along his shirt front like an enormous sea monster rising to devour him.

He started crawling upward again, reached up to grab the mooring cable, and swung himself across to the hull of the Ranger.

But there were cottonmouths down there too, with death behind their fangs, and no love for the life that was crawling upward.

After crawling upward for what seemed like miles, she stopped, studied the forest to either side, advanced, repeated the process, then took us off road.