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Mountaineering   /mˈaʊntɪnˌɪrɪŋ/   Listen
Mountaineering

noun
1.
The activity of climbing a mountain.  Synonym: mountain climbing.






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"Mountaineering" Quotes from Famous Books



... bother the day before, and they were afoot, striding briskly through the bitter cold to where the great bulk of Middle Butte loomed against the sunrise. They hunted carefully through the outlying foothills and toiled laboriously up the steep sides to the level top. It was a difficult piece of mountaineering, for the edges of the cliffs had become round and slippery with the ice, and it was no easy task to move up and along them, clutching the gun in one hand and grasping each little projection with the other. That day again ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn



Words linked to "Mountaineering" :   mountaineer, climb, abseil, aerodontalgia, mount, rappel, Alpinism



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