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nounsomeone who climbs mountains
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verbclimb mountains for pleasure as a sport
Definition that contains mountaineer
- hillary New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919)
- rappel (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body
- piton a metal spike with a hole for a rope; mountaineers drive it into ice or rock to use as a hold
- sherpa a member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers
- abseil (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body
- carabiner an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes
- sir edmund percival hillary New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919)
- edmund hillary New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919)
- snap ring an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes
- karabiner an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes