escalader

Les gens dans les rues avaient escaladé des carrioles et des wagons.
People had climbed onto carts and wagons in the street.
Suivant leur habitude, sans attendre l'arrêt du train, s'élançant sur les marchepieds au nombre d'une centaine, ils avaient escaladé les wagons comme fait un clown d'un cheval au galop.
A hundred of them had, according to their habit, jumped upon the steps without stopping the train, with the ease of a clown mounting a horse at full gallop.
Suivant leur habitude, sans attendre l’arrêt du train, s’élançant sur les marchepieds au nombre d’une centaine, ils avaient escaladé les wagons comme fait un clown d’un cheval au galop.
A hundred of them had, according to their habit, jumped upon the steps without stopping the train, with the ease of a clown mounting a horse at full gallop.
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