Mountaineering
Mountaineering is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains. Mountaineering-related activities include traditional outdoor climbing, skiing, and traversing via ferratas that have become sports in their own right. Indoor climbing, sport climbing, and bouldering are also considered variants of mountaineering by some, but are part of a wide group of mountain sports. In everyday language, the term "mountaineering" means mountain climbing or alpinism.
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- nounA person who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.
- nounA person who lives in a mountainous area (often with the connotation that such people are outlaws or uncivilized).
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