• n  an act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification)
• v  climb up and over
  They had to escalade canyons to reach their destination

News & Articles

• Traffic stop turns up bizarre teen-runaway plot
  A sheriff's deputy pulled over a Cadillac Escalade with a Michigan plate recently because it was moving erratically on a local highway. What has spilled out of that SUV since is an eerily consistent story of teenage runaways so desperate to fit in that they fell prey to Internet lurkers and set off on a cross-country odyssey with two men.
  June 17, 2013 - The San Angelo Standard-Times
• Arab officer stops Heisman winner's SUV
  An Arab police officer got a bit of a surprise Saturday when he pulled over a black Cadillac Escalade for a minor traffic violation on U.S. 231. He never imagined he was pulling over a Heisman Trophy winner.
  June 17, 2013 - The Arab Tribune
• More Details on the Next Cadillac Escalade
  GM showed off the new Escalade in a closed-door meeting for Wall Street this week. Journalists were barred from the room -- but this Fool analyst listened in, and he shares the details.        
  June 16, 2013 - The Motley Fool

Quotes

• Troy Tulowitzki in International Herald Tribune
  I'm really into cars,Tulowitzki said. "I was always looking online at cars and always saying if I ever ran into some money, this is what I would get. An old-school Camaro is one of them, a Maserati and a Cadillac Escalade were my three...
• Steve Molitor in Globe and Mail
  I was driving there [for the first time] in my nice Escalade, nice house, nice house, nice house - crackhouse,Molitor recalled Wednesday at news conference for Rumble at Rama V. "I was like, '...... that's where I've got to stay.' No TV,...
• Donald Penn in Pewter Report (registration)
  I always watched that [former Giants running back] Tiki Barber commercial when he's driving the [Cadillac] Escalade and he's talking about his opportunity,Penn said. "Every time I saw that commercial I kept thinking I'm just waiting on...