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mountaineering
noun as in mountain climbing
Example Sentences
The Himalayan nation is home to eight of the world's 10 highest peaks and welcomes hundreds of climbers every year, making mountaineering a lucrative business.
He joined the 35-member expedition as a porter despite no prior mountaineering experience.
Hundreds now follow in his footsteps to the summit of Everest each year, fuelling a multimillion-dollar mountaineering industry.
Given this is the favoured season, frequent storms like this have "hampered our trekking and mountaineering business," he added.
In April 2024, Nepal's Supreme Court ordered the government to limit the number of mountaineering permits issued for Everest and several other peaks, saying that the mountains' capacity "must be respected".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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