mountaineer
noun
Examples of mountaineer in a Sentence
Brian Strickland, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2024
Rafael Moran, a reporter for Los Andes, a daily newspaper in Mendoza, interviewed the mountaineers near the pool.
—John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
But in 1960, the mountaineer found himself on quite a different mission.
—Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 18 Jan. 2024
Reinhardt had found the remains with Peruvian mountaineer Miguel Zárate at an altitude of 21,000 feet (6,400 meters) during an expedition to Ampato, one of the highest volcanos in the Andes.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Dec. 2023
In the early days after restoration, the iron routes of the Dolomites were primarily used by skilled mountaineers.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
This length is most often used by mountaineers due to the use of taller boots that can rub against your calves and shins more dramatically.
—Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
His screen energy is more like Mike Rowe, the affable frontman of Discovery’s Dirty Jobs, or Scottish mountaineer Cameron McNeish.
—Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
Such mass upward migrations do not interest blue-collar mountaineers like these.
—John Branch, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
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circa 1616, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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