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The first three films are standard fare: pro climbers on quests to climb the unclimbable.—Peter Vigneron, Outside Online, 12 Dec. 2020 Half Dome fell off and likely left the route unclimbable, Climbing reported Monday.—The Editors, Outside Online, 7 July 2015 The unclimbable, barbed wire barricades, along with tens of thousands of National Guard troops stationed in Washington, D.C., have made the nation's capital city look more like a warzone than the seat of democracy in recent days.—Fox News, 21 Jan. 2021 No Texas Tech team has been able to climb the unclimbable hill that is beating a Matt Campbell Iowa State team.—Brice Paterik, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2020 The hills were covered in wide sprays of holly oak, then thick bushes, then slopes as unclimbable as paper.—Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019 For a while, Nanda Devi was closed by the Indian government because it was considered unclimbable.—Colleen Shalby, latimes.com, 3 June 2019 At 13, Fred and two friends reached the top of Mount Despair, a rugged 7,292-foot peak in the North Cascades that mountaineers had considered unclimbable.—Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017 In Coronado, Strickland said the suicide-prevention collaborative has been eyeing as a possible solution the kind of inward-tilting, unclimbable fencing that was installed on the Cold Spring Canyon Bridge in Santa Barbara County.—John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 May 2017
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