unclimb

English

Etymology

un- +‎ climb

Verb

unclimb (third-person singular simple present unclimbs, present participle unclimbing, simple past and past participle unclimbed)

1. (transitive) To undo the climbing of; to climb down or back from.
   • 1924, Minnie Hill Wood, Afoot and Alone from Washington, D. C., to San Francisco, page 243:

     Then I began to unclimb the Rocky Mountains.

   • 1984, Field & Stream, volume 89, number 6, page 81:

     If you need to be back down on the ground again you have to "unclimb" the tree the same way.