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climber

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as in mountaineer

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Recent Examples of climber The first part, the Way, was an ad hoc system of safety rules and climbing ethics, handed down from climber to climber. — Daniel Duane, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2026 Matt Hepp, an engineer and a climber who volunteers with Ouray Mountain Rescue, created a reference map that notes mile markers and some of the most notorious sections. — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 The Brit plays climber Edmund Hillary, with Genden Phuntsok playing the titular Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026 Bionic limbs In 1982, a 17-year-old mountain climber lost both his legs to frostbite. — Abraham Swee, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for climber

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The body was retrieved by helicopter during the afternoon and taken to Lukla, a town known as a gateway for mountaineers and trekkers heading to the Everest region.

— CBS News, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
During production, an avalanche killed 16 Sherpas in the icefall, turning the film into a chronicle of the disaster and the disproportionate risks Himalayan climbers take while helping foreign mountaineers pursue their ambitions.

— Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of mountaineer

Noun

Two Colorado hikers remain missing after a search team found a tent, collapsed by snow, with items inside, the Chaffee County Sheriff's Office announced in a social media post on Tuesday.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
The object turned out to be the hiker's tent that had collapsed from the weight of the snow.

— Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026

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Hofer was an alpinist himself and a mountain-rescue volunteer.

— William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Italy’s Be Water Film and Rai Cinema have unveiled fresh images for Daniele Vicari’s drama Bianco about an infamous 1961 mountaineering accident which happened as seven elite alpinists tried to scale Mont Blanc’s perilous central Frêney pillar.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2026

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