alpenstock

Example Sentences

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Brooks himself reads as the opposite of acrophobic: scaling the icy pinnacles of Hollywood without anything more than a pang of self-doubt, using humor as his alpenstock.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2021

Has no intention, as things stand, of reaching for his alpenstock.

From Time Magazine Archive

Following closely behind them perhaps there would have strode a professional pilgrim, supporting himself on a stout knobbed staff shod like an alpenstock and weighed down with blessed medals, relics, shells, vernicles and so forth.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Piled in a corner, his hiking gear—boots, alpenstock, leather knapsack.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

In these latter times the pure and simple alpenstock has gone out of fashion, and mountaineers now almost universally carry a stick with a point at one end and an axe-head at the other.

From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Whymper, Edward