How he had envied them the freedom of the heights-the loneliness of the unscalable crags-the companionship of the clouds!
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
Lying amid the prickly furze, sheltered for a moment from the deadly wind-whistle, and gazing across that unscalable chasm, we have before us that gull-fortress exactly as it and its kind have been reproduced on the canvas of a well-known painter many many times.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
Sir James Outram, the famous mountaineer, who was the first man to reach the summit of Assiniboine, says that the view he had of the peak from the summit of Cascade Mountain, towering over two thousand feet above where he stood, first fired his ambition to conquer what was then believed to be an unscalable peak.
"Among the Canadian Alps"
Lawrence J. Burpee