mountaineer

/mˌa‍ʊntɪnˈi‍ə/

/ˈmaʊntɪˌnɪɹ/

[noun] [verb]

Mountaineer

[NOUN]

a person who engages in the activity of climbing mountains

synonyms : mountain climber

to mountaineer

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

climb mountains for pleasure as a sport

Examples

1. When supplies ran low during the mountaineering expedition, the climbers realized that hunger breaks stone walls and undertook increasingly dangerous descents to forage for food.

2. And most deaths in climbing is mountaineering alpinism.

3. And it said mountaineers.

4. The mountaineer had sustained devastating injuries in the fall.

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