mountaineer
noun
an inhabitant of a mountainous district.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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To roam over glaciers and scramble up peaks free and untrammelled is mountaineering in the Alps.
From The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America by Hudson Stuck