mountaineer

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Learn how to actually be a mountaineer, learn the ropes (figuratively and literally), and do something on your own.

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Quick take

A person who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of mountaineer gathered in one view.

noun

A person who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.

noun

A bird of the genus Oreonympha; also called the bearded mountaineer or eastern mountaineer

verb

(intransitive) To climb mountains; to climb using the techniques of a mountaineer.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mountaineer.

noun

A person who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.

noun

A bird of the genus Oreonympha; also called the bearded mountaineer or eastern mountaineer

verb

(intransitive) To climb mountains; to climb using the techniques of a mountaineer.

noun

(now rare) A person who lives in a mountainous area (often with the connotation that such people are outlaws or uncivilized).

Example sentences

Learn how to actually be a mountaineer, learn the ropes (figuratively and literally), and do something on your own.

The word of an Italian mountaineer (not known for their humility or good mountain social skills) vs.

Looking at this stuff as an experienced climber/hiker/mountaineer/skier it looks poorly thought out or poorly described.

It must feel great to be the only inerrant mathematical mountaineer in the world - was that skill learned, or is it innate?

He never was a mountaineer again after he let 17 die.

Here is a rather different account from American mountaineer Garrett Madison.

Besides coding and building web applications, I love to rock climb and mountaineer.

Every climber, long distance backpacker, and mountaineer reading this article surely got hit with a blast of Gell-Mann Amnesia just like I did.

It's hazardous enough that this particular mountaineer, with presumably a lot of skill and a long history of successful mountaineering, actually died just by trying to walk beyond that point.

Even the group who were followed in that documentary, from an organizer with a good reputation, led by a well known mountaineer had some members whose physical condition was a bit questionable.

The best way for you, as a mere mortal, and not some semi-suicidal mountaineer to experience big mountains is to take the bus from Santiago,Chile to Mendoza, Argentina.

Source: I've been a little overweight, a weight lifter, mountaineer, and ultramarathon runner, so I have food science down for my body.

Quote examples

Does that mean there actually is an answer for "What do you get when you cross a mosquito with a mountaineer?"

You inadvertently stumbled onto the punchline of the joke - "You can't cross them because a mountaineer is a scalar." (scaler) - works better when spoken.

Kilimanjaro and was no mountaineer." Due to medical reasons, "I had do it as soon as possible.

Like if they ping the mountaineer every ten minutes to ask "how happy are you right now on a scale of 1 to 10" all they would see might be misery.

Proper noun examples

The actual name of the book is 'The Dead Mountaineer's Inn.' What is it with American journalists that they feel it's OK to just change the titles of things to make a snappy headline?

> Near the beginning of The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn, a 1970 novel by the Russian science-fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the innkeeper, Alek Snevar, proposes to his guest, police inspector Peter Glebsky, that mystery is always preferable to explanation.