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Mountaineering
The term mountaineering describes the sport of mountain climbing, including ski mountaineering. Hiking in the mountains can also be a simple form of mountaineering when it involves scrambling, or short stretches of the more basic grades of rock climbing, as well as crossing glaciers.
Also known as Mountain Climbing and Alpinism
Also known as Mountain Climbing and Alpinism
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I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life.
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― Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
― Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
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I felt as though I were plunging into something new and quite abnormal. I had the strangest and most vivid impressions, such as I had never before known in the mountains. There was something unnatural in the way I saw Lachenal and everything around us. I smiled to myself at the paltriness of our efforts, for I could stand apart and watch myself making these efforts. But all sense of exertion was gone, as though there were no longer any gravity. This diaphanous landscape, this quintessence of pur
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― Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak:
― Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak:
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