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mountaineering

noun as in mountain climbing

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Adventure sports and mountaineering could lure in travelers during the off season, but they are still limited.

In the 19th century, when mountaineering was developing as a sport, the playing field was highly restricted.

Parrado was one of the men who set out without any mountaineering equipment to find help and save the other survivors.

On the phone, Garrett cites a New York-based explorer, Moses Gates, who compares urban exploration with mountaineering.

Unmoved by these political concerns, the families in the Diamir Valley braced for a future without mountaineering.

Is it not a first principle of mountaineering to be as comfortable as possible as long as one can?

A mountaineering enterprise may keep sanity and sound judgment and remain an adventure.

Mountaineering is a sport of which Englishmen should be proud; for they were the first really to pursue it as a pastime.

These are tellingly related in that classic volume, "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada."

It can be done, truly, but only with the pains and penalties of high mountaineering attached.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mountaineering, such as: hiking, alpinism, backpacking, hill-climbing, and rock climbing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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