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mountaineering Definition


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mountaineer
noun
    1. Someone who climbs mountains.
verb
    intr
    mountaineered, mountaineering
    1. To climb mountains.
Derivative: mountaineering
noun
    The sport of climbing mountains, usually aided by ropes, etc, either on snow and ice, as practised mainly on the higher peaks of the world, or on bare rock faces (also called rock climbing).
Etymology: 19c: from mountain + -eer.



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