Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An alpine climber; an alpestrian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A climber of the Alps.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
alpinism . - noun sometimes capitalized A
mountain climber , especially in the European Alps or inranges of similarruggedness andelevation . - noun sometimes capitalized A
downhill skier who practises thesport on high mountains.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mountain climber who specializes in difficult climbs
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Examples
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Police have told the Austria Press Agency they located the partial skeleton Thursday after an alpinist gave them human bones and a hiking boot that he found near a glacier.
Austrian Mountain Climber's Remains Found After 54 Years 2011
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One of the worlds top alpinist, Tomaz Humar, died this past week on the remote Nepalese peak Langtang Lirung, 23,711ft 7227m.
alanarnette.com 2010
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DeChristopher was at OR to talk about his latest climate action, which revolves around Dick Bass, an amateur alpinist who was the first man to climb the Seven Summits (the highest peaks on each continent) and the owner of the famed Snowbird ski resort outside of Salt Lake City.
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This talented and charismatic alpinist also knows Bass, yet he awkwardly dismissed attempting to influence him by mumbling banalities about how everyone has to work within their own comfort zone.
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I was climbing with Barry Blanchard, a noted Canadian alpinist, heading up a route called Grand Central Couloir, a steep, technical gully that splits the north face of Kitchener.
A Nature for the Great Outdoors Michael J. Ybarra 2010
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DeChristopher was at OR to talk about his latest climate action, which revolves around Dick Bass, an amateur alpinist who was the first man to climb the Seven Summits (the highest peaks on each continent) and the owner of the famed Snowbird ski resort outside of Salt Lake City.
David Holbrooke: Skiing and Sacrifice David Holbrooke 2010
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This talented and charismatic alpinist also knows Bass, yet he awkwardly dismissed attempting to influence him by mumbling banalities about how everyone has to work within their own comfort zone.
David Holbrooke: Skiing and Sacrifice David Holbrooke 2010
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Those very sites of domestication would later provide staging areas for twentieth-century alpinist excursions into the Cedarberg wilderness.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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It's the brainchild of Mr. Twight, a legendary American alpinist whose idea of fun was to climb Alaska's Mount Denali by a brutally challenging route in 60 sleepless hours.
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She was America's leading female alpinist, the only woman internationally to climb six of 14 peaks that measured 8,000 meters: Gasherbrum II, Lhotse, Cho Oyu, Broad Peak, Shishapangma, and Everest (twice), and the record holder of unexplored first mountain ascents.
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