Crossword clues for alpinist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alpinist \Al"pin*ist\, n. A climber of the Alps.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to alpinism. n. 1 (context sometimes capitalized English) A mountain climber, especially in the European Alps or in ranges of similar ruggedness and elevation. 2 (context sometimes capitalized English) A downhill skier who practises the sport on high mountains.
WordNet
n. a mountain climber who specializes in difficult climbs
Wikipedia
Alpinist is a quarterly American magazine focused on mountaineering ascents worldwide.
Usage examples of "alpinist".
And Cap Cicero, famous alpinist and guide, was an inflexible bully who lived by the adage My way or no way.
No true climber would ever distract a fellow alpinist who was in the middle of taking on a tough problem.
It was simple enough for a real alpinist, but Perry was obsessed with his lines and bolts and pitons.
I knew that he had been an alpinist of note, and in these moments I fancy he was recapturing some of the activities of his youth.
We faced each other and pushed our shoes against each other, each of us bracing like an Alpinist inching his way up a rock chimneymy socks against her tennis shoes, rather, for my shoes were still on my workbench, so far as I knew I wondered if they had simply dumped Oscar in the pasture and if Dad would find him.
They were all accomplished alpinists, but were they ready for the brutal toll that the great mountains could impose?
He was as good as 90 percent of the adult alpinists in the world and had summited Everest already.
Star alpinists would be stopped in their tracks if a disgruntled sponsor cut off the shipments of food and equipment.
I remembered the inevitable expressions of surprise with which, young Alpinists and ballooners, expecting the rim of the visible circle to fall away, see it rising around them in saucer-shape.
Forsaking the tactics which alpinists normally employed in almost every other range on earth, the Ultimate Summit proceeded carefully and slowly.
All we need is a team composed of specialist Alpinists, Commandos, mountaineers and safe-breakers and what do we have?
Two Alpinists of different nationalities who meet in a refuge hut in the Caucasus, or the professor and the peasant ornithologist who stay in the same house, are no more strangers to each other.