mountaineering

[ moun-tn-eer-ing ]

noun

1. the sport of climbing mountains.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mountaineering¹

First recorded in 1795–1805; mountaineer + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

He and Scheisser also ran a mountaineering camp for youth, he was a high-level ski instructor being groomed to take over management of Banff’s glamorous Sunshine Village Ski Resort and he’d completed his mountain-guide certification two years before.

From Time

According to Alpenglow Expeditions, which is based in Tahoe City, California, and leads mountaineering trips in destinations ranging from the Himalayas to Ecuador, clients are starting to plan.

From Outside Online

If the science of mountaineering interests you, this one’s a sure bet.

From Outside Online

He and his colleagues identified 25 changes affecting mountaineering.

From Outside Online

Jean Pierre Fasson, secretary general of Montagna Sicura, a foundation dedicated to making mountaineering in the Alps safer, has added a weeklong module on climate change to his organization’s alpine guide course.

From Outside Online

Adventure sports and mountaineering could lure in travelers during the off season, but they are still limited.

From The Daily Beast

In the 19th century, when mountaineering was developing as a sport, the playing field was highly restricted.

From The Daily Beast

Parrado was one of the men who set out without any mountaineering equipment to find help and save the other survivors.

From The Daily Beast

On the phone, Garrett cites a New York-based explorer, Moses Gates, who compares urban exploration with mountaineering.

From The Daily Beast

Unmoved by these political concerns, the families in the Diamir Valley braced for a future without mountaineering.

From The Daily Beast

Is it not a first principle of mountaineering to be as comfortable as possible as long as one can?

From Project Gutenberg

A mountaineering enterprise may keep sanity and sound judgment and remain an adventure.

From Project Gutenberg

Mountaineering is a sport of which Englishmen should be proud; for they were the first really to pursue it as a pastime.

From Project Gutenberg

These are tellingly related in that classic volume, "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada."

From Project Gutenberg

It can be done, truly, but only with the pains and penalties of high mountaineering attached.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• hiking