piolet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of piolet
1865–70; < French < Franco-Provençal; compare piolet, pioula, derivatives of apia ax ≪ Germanic; hatchet
Example Sentences
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He was awarded the Piolet d'Or, dubbed mountaineering's Oscars, for summitting the previously unclimbed Jugal Spire in Nepal.
From BBC
"I'm incredibly proud to receive a Piolet d'Or, but I never got into climbing for awards," he said.
From BBC
Though Messner accepted the lifetime achievement Piolet d’Or in 2010, an award created a year earlier, he too dismisses climbing prizes as reductive.
From New York Times
For his climb, Lama won a Piolet d’Or — the Golden Ice Axe — Alpinism’s biggest prize.
From New York Times
After winning a Piolet d’Or in 2019 with his Slovene teammates Ales Cesen and Luka Strazar, the British climber Tom Livingstone wrote in an essay on his website that the award “plays on my human ego” in worrisome ways.
From New York Times
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