mountaineering
the sport of climbing mountains.
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He and Scheisser also ran a mountaineering camp for youth, he was a high-level ski instructor being groomed to take over management of Banff’s glamorous Sunshine Village Ski Resort and he’d completed his mountain-guide certification two years before.
How One Man Survived a Plane Crash and 5 Days in the Snowy Canadian Wilderness—and Went On to Help Shape the Modern Ski Industry | Cassidy Randall | December 27, 2020 | TimeAccording to Alpenglow Expeditions, which is based in Tahoe City, California, and leads mountaineering trips in destinations ranging from the Himalayas to Ecuador, clients are starting to plan.
What the Vaccine Distribution Timeline Means for Travel | Megan Michelson | December 17, 2020 | Outside OnlineIf the science of mountaineering interests you, this one’s a sure bet.
He and his colleagues identified 25 changes affecting mountaineering.
How Climate Change Is Making the Alps More Dangerous | Agostino Petroni | October 23, 2020 | Outside OnlineJean Pierre Fasson, secretary general of Montagna Sicura, a foundation dedicated to making mountaineering in the Alps safer, has added a weeklong module on climate change to his organization’s alpine guide course.
How Climate Change Is Making the Alps More Dangerous | Agostino Petroni | October 23, 2020 | Outside Online
Adventure sports and mountaineering could lure in travelers during the off season, but they are still limited.
In the 19th century, when mountaineering was developing as a sport, the playing field was highly restricted.
Breaking Mount Everest’s Glass Ceiling | Amanda Padoan, Peter Zuckerman | March 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTParrado was one of the men who set out without any mountaineering equipment to find help and save the other survivors.
On the phone, Garrett cites a New York-based explorer, Moses Gates, who compares urban exploration with mountaineering.
Urban Explorers Face Sewage, Rats, Vertigo, Claustrophobia and Cops | Josh Dzieza | October 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTUnmoved by these political concerns, the families in the Diamir Valley braced for a future without mountaineering.
Is it not a first principle of mountaineering to be as comfortable as possible as long as one can?
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-BuryA mountaineering enterprise may keep sanity and sound judgment and remain an adventure.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-Burymountaineering is a sport of which Englishmen should be proud; for they were the first really to pursue it as a pastime.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-BuryThese are tellingly related in that classic volume, "mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada."
Your National Parks | Enos A. MillsIt can be done, truly, but only with the pains and penalties of high mountaineering attached.
The Gates of India | Thomas Holdich
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