cragsman

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 Herbert George Jenkins

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

From Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton

I became a daring cragsman, a character to which an English lad can seldom aspire, for in England there are neither crags nor mountains.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction by Arthur Mee

Once on the summit the successful cragsman can have any wish he may pine for.

From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by H. C. Hart

But I never got within a thousand feet of it, for the crowning bastions are almost sheer, and would need a better cragsman than myself to negotiate.

From A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa by Frederick Cornell

The superman is Captain Keith Mallory, a New Zealand mountaineer, "idol of the cragsmen," hero of legendary exploits in the Cretan resistance.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had heard of many cragsmen who had lost their lives in that way, and his own position was by no means the most favorable to defend himself against attack.

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

‘Nay, none that folk wot of,’ said Dallach, ‘except to bold cragsmen with their lives in their hands.’

From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by William Morris

Neither of them doubted his own footing, and George was sure that three or four of the men who had come with Sir Robert were equally good cragsmen.

From Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte Mary Yonge

La Fauconnaire is, I believe, unclimbable except at one place, at least for those who are not experienced cragsmen or Alpine experts.

From Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles by Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling