Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The climbing of mountains, especially using special equipment and techniques on rock, ice, or snow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or practice of climbing mountains.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Climbing mountains as a sport.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
sport ofclimbing mountains
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the activity of climbing a mountain
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Examples
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His lifelong interest in mountaineering culminated in a 1993 climb of Pakistans treacherous K2, the worlds second highest mountain, which changed his life.
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I found in mountaineering an activity, a way of life, a lifestyle that was appropriate for my type of personality, because I tend to be lazy, but not incompetent. l found in mountaineering a hard taskmaster.
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I found in mountaineering a way of living in which it was easy to get into situations that invariably were going to be difficult to get out of and, once in those situations, once involved, if you failed, the result was either physical injury or death.
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I learned more in mountaineering in these 20 years, I think, than I've ever learned in the years before and I expect to climb until I can't move any more.
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It's interesting that one of the first things you learn in mountaineering, if you're going to stay with the sport, is how to adapt to changing conditions.
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There is an understandable squeamishness among law-makers about what we used to call "mountaineering", climbing anything that rose out of the ground.
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"This is what they'd call mountaineering eroticism."
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With 8, 8000ers, Everest twice (both sides) and Manaslu twice, Yoshinobu Kato (32) had one of the best records in Japanese mountaineering.
unknown title 2009
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"This is what they'd call mountaineering eroticism."
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With 8, 8000ers, Everest twice (both sides) and Manaslu twice, Yoshinobu Kato (32) had one of the best records in Japanese mountaineering.
unknown title 2009
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