cragsman

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The expert cragsman climbs to attain acrobatic efficiency, and may aim at nothing higher than inspired legs.

From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)

For such work a mountaineer or a cragsman, or Winifred, is needed.'

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

A few jolting fragments of rock were all that was left of it—insufficient even for a practiced cragsman to make his way along on either side.

From Bred in the Bone by Payn, James

With this new danger menacing him, the young cragsman lay flat down on the rock, and remained motionless, while he offered up an earnest prayer to Heaven that the bird might not discover him.

From Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

All four men were born mountaineers, good climbers, and they were led by the most expert cragsman I have seen.

From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Whymper, Edward