cragsman

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Being something of a cragsman, I did manage to get half way to the top of that.

From The Lost World by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

He must be helmsman and chief, the cragsman, the rifleman, the boat steerer.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore

"We are going to the village to get a cragsman with a rope, and will be with you anon."

From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

He would go out on all-day excursions, enjoying the thrills of clambering up to what appeared to be inaccessible ledges, until eventually he became an expert cragsman.

From The Life of George Borrow by Jenkins, Herbert George

Excepting head, however, no other quality of a cragsman is required for Sharp Edge; the footing is ample, and the hands would be less called into requisition than even on Striding Edge.'

From Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by Smith, W. P. Haskett