Crossword clues for mountaineering
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mountaineering \moun`tain*eer"ing\ (moun`t[i^]n*[=e]r"[i^]ng), n. Climbing mountains as a sport.
Wiktionary
n. (senseid en sport) the sport of climbing mountains
WordNet
n. the activity of climbing a mountain [syn: mountain climbing]
Wikipedia
The term mountaineering describes the sport of mountain climbing, including ski mountaineering. Hiking in the mountains can also be a simple form of mountaineering when it involves scrambling, or short stretches of the more basic grades of rock climbing, as well as crossing glaciers.
While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed big mountains it has branched into specializations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists of three (3) areas: rock-craft, snow-craft, and skiing, depending on whether the route chosen is over rock, snow or ice. All require experience, athletic ability, and technical knowledge to maintain safety.
Mountaineering is often called Alpinism, especially in European languages, which implies climbing with difficulty such high, and often snow and ice-covered mountains as the Alps. A mountaineer with such great skill is called an Alpinist. The word alpinism was born in the 19th century to refer to climbing for the purpose of enjoying climbing itself as a sport or recreation, distinct from merely climbing while hunting or as a religious pilgrimage that had been done generally at that time.
The UIAA or Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme is the world governing body in mountaineering and climbing, addressing issues like access, medical, mountain protection, safety, youth and ice climbing.
Usage examples of "mountaineering".
In full Everest gear they ascended to the surface through a slanting tunnel and fanned out in nine groups for a mile of hard mountaineering across the junkpile world.
The books about sport and mountaineering, of fifty years ago, tell of his exploits as an athlete, and of his mountain climbings in Switzerland and Mexico, and there is a book of famous bets called Light Come Light Go, in which you can read of how for a bet he swam the Thames in evening clothes and a high hat — but later on, and more romantically, he swam the Hellespont like Leander and Lord Byron.
All that scuba-diving and mountaineering and pot-holing and hang-glidingshe just wants to fill the days and not think about anything.
All that scuba-diving and mountaineering and pot-holing and hang-gliding—she just wants to fill the days and not think about anything.
Away from mountaineering, it gave her, at times, an unrelaxed look, a jumpiness.