0_Wizard
Have you ever been mountain climbing or consider yourself a mountaineer?
The term mountaineering describes the sport of mountain climbing.
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Mountaineering
The term mountaineering describes the sport of mountain climbing. While some scholars identify mountaineering-related activities as climbing (rock and ice) and trekking up mountains, others are also adding backpacking, hiking, skiing, via ferrata and wilderness activities, and still others state that mountaineering activities also include indoor climbing, sport climbing and bouldering. However most of the scholars, the term mountaineering understand as a climbing (which now refers to adventure climbing or sports climbing) and trekking (hill walking in 'exotic' places). Hiking in the mountains can also be a simple form of mountaineering when it involves scrambling, or short stretches of the more basic grades of rock climbing, as well as crossing glaciers.
Mount Everest
Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmāthā and in Tibetan as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The international border between China (Tibet Autonomous Region) and Nepal runs across its summit point. The current official height of , recognised by China and Nepal, was established by a 1955 Indian survey and subsequently confirmed by a Chinese survey in 1975. In 2005, China remeasured the rock height of the mountain, with a result of 8844.43 m. There followed an argument between China and Nepal as to whether the official height should be the rock height (8,844 m., China) or the snow height (8,848 m., Nepal).
Lynn Hill
Carolynn Marie "Lynn" Hill (born January 3, 1961) is a U.S. rock climber. Widely regarded as one of the leading competitive sport climbers in the world during the late 1980s and early 1990s, she is famous for making the first free ascent of the difficult sheer rock face of "The Nose" on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, and for repeating it the next year in less than 24 hours. She has been described as both one of the best female climbers in the world and one of the best climbers of all time. One of the first successful women in the sport, Hill shaped rock climbing for women and became a public spokesperson, helping it gain wider popularity and arguing for sex equality.
West Virginia Mountaineers football
The West Virginia Mountaineers football team represents West Virginia University (also referred to as "WVU" or "West Virginia") in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of college football. Dana Holgorsen is WVU's current head coach, the 33rd in the program's history. West Virginia plays its home games on Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium on the campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. The Mountaineers compete in the Big 12 Conference. With a 744–491–45 record as of the conclusion of the 2017 season, WVU ranks 14th in victories among NCAA FBS programs, as well as the most victories among those programs that never claimed nor won a national championship.
David Sharp (mountaineer)
David Sharp (15 February 1972 – 15 May 2006) was an English mountaineer who died near the summit of Mount Everest. His death caused controversy and debate, because he was passed by a number of other climbers heading to and returning from the summit as he was dying, although a number of others did try to help him. Sharp had previously summitted Cho Oyu and was noted as being a talented rock climber, who seemed to acclimatize well, and was known for being in good humor around mountaineering camps. He had appeared briefly in season one of the television show "", which was filmed the same season as his ill-fated expedition to Everest.
Peter Kaufmann (Alpine guide)
Peter Kaufmann (January 17, 1858, in Grindelwald - October 14, 1924, in Grindelwald, at age 66) was a Swiss mountain guide during the Silver Age of Alpinism (1865-1882) and the early twentieth century, who guided amateurs, experienced climbers, and several notables across glaciers, over mountain passes, and to the summits in the Swiss Alps, the Canadian Rockies, and the Selkirks. Peter Kaufmann was born in his family's house in Grindelwald and named after his father, Peter Kaufmann (born May 21, 1832 – died October 26, 1903) whose nickname "Grabi Peter" referred to the location of the house in which he was born, the "im Graben" region of Grindelwald.
Stefan Winter
Stefan Winter (born 16 March 1968) is a German ski mountaineer, former coach of the German ski mountaineering team, and alpine sports author. Winter is teacher of sports and German and a DAV mountain guide. He took part in several ski mountaineering tours in his teens and competed in ski mountaineering events, amongst others in the 2001 Trofeo Mezzalama race, in the 2005 Pierra Menta race together with Günther Maier, in the Trophee du Muveran and others. At the DAV he was head of the school sports climbing section of the "mountain climbing, training and security" department as well as leader of the DAV youth course program, a mountain climbing training institution for children and teens.
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Absolutely! I have done both mountain climbing and bouldering, indeed. I find it very interesting and challenging! Do you know about different types of mountaineering?