- present participle of mountaineer.
mountaineering
Example Sentences
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Their fellow guides say their deaths deal a devastating blow to Nepal's mountaineering community.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
It is certainly true that tennis requires discipline and sacrifice, but is this country-club sport really more intense than, say, distance running, mountaineering or solo sailing?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
"He was keen on making Nepal recognized in the world and developing our mountaineering sector."
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Purja, 43, was born in Nepal and went on to join the British Army’s special forces before embracing mountaineering as his passion and career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Ang Dorje became an able student and achieved the equivalent of an eighth-grade education before quitting to go back to work in the mountaineering and trekking industry.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
