Definition of "mountaineering" []

• The climbing of mountains for sport, usually incorporating the skills of rock climbing and climbing on ice. (noun)

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• "His lifelong interest in mountaineering culminated in a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, the world’s second highest mountain, which changed his life."
• "I found in mountaineering a way of living in which it was easy to get into situations that invariably were going to be difficult to get out of and, once in those situations, once involved, if you failed, the result was either physical injury or death."
• "It's interesting that one of the first things you learn in mountaineering, if you're going to stay with the sport, is how to adapt to changing conditions."