Which excerpt from "The Catch” appeals to readers’ sense of hearing to help them imagine a scene?

His legs and thigh muscles ached as he trudged through the final swampland.
He tried to thrust off Rohan’s shoulders to push himself over in as though they were in a game of leap frog.
Just then, an old elf released a great eagle from its shackles, a signal for the race to start. When it squawked to freedom, the race began.
The gentle foothills ended quickly, and the runners made a steep scramble to the top of a cliff, followed by a daylong run up across uneven terrain of hard, coarse-grained rock.