But if you climb mountains – if you’re a mountaineer – many people will say you’re taking part in a sport.
By triggering these smaller avalanches, the resorts are able to prevent the snow from building up and becoming a danger to skiers and mountaineers.
Maybe that’s because mountaineers compete – in other words, they try to do better than other climbers.
Our guide was a very experienced mountaineer and showed us a lot of interesting things as we hiked.
Some mountaineers used to wear avalanche cords – 15-meter-long red-colored lines that dragged behind them.
When his job took him to New Mexico, he joined the local mountain rescue team, gaining valuable training from more experienced mountaineers.
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On the other hand, it is a must for mountaineers.
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Society is prepared to invest vast amounts of resources in rescuing mountaineers who encounter difficulties, or those who are missing at sea.
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If differentiation was attempted, it tended to concentrate on either occupational or scientific criteria, such as whether someone was a scientist, explorer,mountaineer, or political figure.
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I am told that several climbing and mountaineering clubs provide communication equipment by contribution from their members.
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They appointed a famousmountaineerto investigate and, following the report of the committee headed by him, they suspended the local militia.
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Some of the greatest mountaineers have been very competitive indeed.
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Climbers, potholers, mountaineers—vast numbers of people are more interested in these sports.
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With delay, as anymountaineerknows, come darkness and danger.
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The suport staff include radio operators, diesel mechanics, cooks, electricians, builders, medical officers, tractor mechanics, mountaineers, general assistants.
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Recreation embraces walkers, anglers, campers, cyclists, mountaineers, gliders, canoeists, pot holer, sub-aqua enthusiasts and parachutists.
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Mountaineers have various safety equipment—helmets, running belays, pitons, karabines, and so on—which is not compulsory, but which most sensible climbers use.
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It does not mean that people have to be mountaineers or rugged types to enjoy these amenities.
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There may well be crags measuring less than 10 hectares to which mountaineers want access.
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Yet these are ordinary people, not professional mountaineers.
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The formulation of such a reasonable framework has baffled and defied the most expert political and parliamentary mountaineers throughout the century.
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