Meaning of unclimbed | Babel Free

Definitions

Not climbed.

not-comparable

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“These Swiss mountaineers, led by Albert Eggler (third from left), reported from Nepal last⟳ week that they had not only conquered Lhotse, at 28,100 feet the world's highest hitherto unclimbed peak, but twice climbed its 29,002-foot twin. Mount⟳ Everest, previously scaled only by Sir Edmund Hillary and the Sherpa guide⟳, Tenzing Norgay, in 1953.”

“Looking to the east we could see⟳ Api and the mountains of west Nepal, shapely snow⟳ peaks in the distance, while in the immediate foreground, much lower but still dramatic, were the peaks of Panch Chuli IV and V (III was hidden by the lip of a huge cornice), Telkot and Nagling, all of them unclimbed, all steep and challenging.”

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