had been sloping
Past perfect progressive conjugation of slope. There are other translations for this conjugation.

slope

Soon the passage that had been sloping down began to go up again, and after a while it climbed steeply.
Pronto el pasadizo, que había estado bajando, comenzó a subir otra vez, y de pronto ascendió abruptamente.
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