cragsman

He would go out on all-day excursions, enjoying the thrills of clambering up to what appeared to be inaccessible ledges, until eventually he became an expert cragsman.

From The Life of George Borrow by Herbert George Jenkins

He's really a good cragsman and knows exactly how far he can go.

From Lister's Great Adventure by Harold Bindloss

Dickson's heart fell, for he did not profess to be a cragsman and had indeed a horror of precipitous places.

From Huntingtower by John Buchan

But now, at the present moment, he was unwilling to make essay of his prowess as a cragsman.

From Aaron Trow by Anthony Trollope

For such work a mountaineer or a cragsman, or Winifred, is needed.'

From Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton

The superman is Captain Keith Mallory, a New Zealand mountaineer, "idol of the cragsmen," hero of legendary exploits in the Cretan resistance.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘Nay, none that folk wot of,’ said Dallach, ‘except to bold cragsmen with their lives in their hands.’

From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by William Morris

The natives are expert cragsmen, and much of their time is occupied in collecting birds' feathers.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes

He had heard of many cragsmen who had lost their lives in that way, and his own position was by no means the most favorable to defend himself against attack.

From Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Neither of them doubted his own footing, and George was sure that three or four of the men who had come with Sir Robert were equally good cragsmen.

From Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte Mary Yonge