In the early fifties of the 19th century the taste for mountaineering 1apidly developed for several very different reasons.
In the course of winter travel in the interior of Alaska most of the problems of snow mountaineering present themselves at one time or another.
While yet such a peak is unclimbed, there is constant goading of mountaineering minds to its conquest; once its top has been reached, the incentive declines.
Sidenote: The Denali Problem] With the exception of this ridge, Denali is not a mountain that presents special mountaineering difficulties of a technical kind.
To roam over glaciers and scramble up peaks free and untrammelled is mountaineering in the Alps.
There is only one difficulty about the naming of this pass; strictly speaking, it is not a pass at all, and the writer does not know of anymountaineering term that technically describes it.
Those who think that a long apprenticeship must be served under skilled instructors before command of the technique of snow mountaineering can be obtained would have been astonished at Karstens's work on the Northeast Ridge.
Put a forty-pound pack on a man's back, with the knowledge that to-morrow he must go down for another, and you have mountaineering in Alaska.
One does not recall in the reading of mountaineering books any account of so lofty an ice-fall.
There was, nevertheless, one piece of mountaineering that was continually being done under the guise of a pilgrimage, the ascent of the Roche Melon, near Mt.
Neither were the efforts thus entailed brightened by the idea ofmountaineering as a form of pleasure.
It was a delightful climb, and, indeed, no form of mountaineering is more interesting than rockwork of the kind.
The way lies not over but round the lower of these, effecting what is termed in mountaineering parlance a "corner.
Not that he cared about that, however; for after more than a week of confinement to his room, and that in the loveliest of summer weather, all inclination towards the reaping of further mountaineering laurels seemed to have left him.
I am disposed to think this rage for mountaineering by no means a bad thing--in fact a distinctly good one, as anything that calls forth pluck, determination, and endurance is bound to be.
Not one in a hundred of all the men who spend summer after summer mountaineering ever thinks of benefiting his species by his experiences.
These three publications cover the last year's mountaineering in Washington, Oregon and California.
You see, I don't know the first thing about mountaineering myself.
He had such implicit faith in Roy's mountaineering capacity that he had taken it absolutely for granted that Roy could find a way back to firm ground.
Still it is strange that Ireland, with so many groups of hills, and some of them so wonderfully beautiful, should not attract more notice in themountaineering world.
In those days at Easter time there was usually a great gathering of the mountaineering clans in the inn at Wastdale Head.
All this being true, it seems incomprehensible that Ireland should not be looked upon more favourably as a possible mountaineering country.
The next group further north, the Forbes group, has not been visited as yet by many mountaineering parties.
The work will prove not only a monument to the memory of a man of rare culture, of great public capacity, and of unusual mountaineering experience, but also a notable addition to permanent Alpine literature.
But it is held to be entirely contrary to the laws which govern the great sport of mountaineering to make similar holes in rock.
So the days go by, and often real mountaineering is a luxury which has to be left till the last.
The properly equipped expeditions made to these mountains merely for the sport of mountaineering may be said to be less than half a dozen.
In the next ten or fifteen years but little mountaineering was done in the Himalaya.
It is quite easy to judge of a man's real mountaineering capacity by the way in which he attacks a steep grass slope.
The self-constituted exponent of a most difficult art is not a whit more ridiculous than the boy or man who rushes at a difficult peak before he has learnt the elements of mountaineering science.
But the conditions have changed greatly since mountaineeringfirst became a popular pastime, and since the first editions of "Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers" were rapidly sold out.
Nor is it only on the continent of Europe that there are mountaineering clubs.
I had reached then that stage in the mountaineering art at which a man is prone to consider the guide he knows best as, beyond all comparison, the best guide that could possibly exist.
The dangers of mountaineering have been divided by a well-known authority into real and imaginary.
It must be confessed here that the writer is disposed to look upon mountaineering in the Alps, in the sense in which it has hitherto been known, as a pastime that will before long become extinct.
I haven't learnt mountaineering for nothing, and if I could tackle that crag on Hawes Fell I oughtn't to be stumped by a gutter pipe.
Mr. Gordon was an enthusiastic member of an Alpine Club, and he would sometimes take the elder and more reliable members of his family on to the fells for mountaineering practice.
You could write an article on 'Mountaineering in Cumberland'.
Mountaineering clothes are comfortable, but one can't say much more.
To deal exhaustively with all subjects connected with mountain hunting, in the Caucasus or elsewhere, would be to repeat much which has already been written by experts in the Mountaineering volume of this series.
The object of the greater part of these writings has been to elaborate in detail the various phases of mountaineering dangers and how to obviate them: in other words, how best to avoid accidents.
They were of course "roped" in the usualmountaineering fashion.
Since the above was written Howard Palmer's Mountaineeringand Exploration in the Selkirks has been published, making a very important addition to the scanty literature on the subject.
He prepared himself for this annual mountaineering with the same earnestness that a holy man might approach a solemn festival of his church.
Guides competent for any mountaineering in this district can be found at Zernetz, and probably also at the Baths of Bormio.
Two young converts tomountaineering set out from Val Masino for the pass, guideless, ropeless, axeless.
After a week of hard mountaineering at Zermatt or in the Oberland, the keen colourless air of the Riffel or Bell Alp begins to pall upon my senses; the pine-woods and chalets to remind me, against my will, of a German box of toys.
I feel it well here to guard myself from the risk of being reckoned amongst those who would set up an example of 'mountaineering without guides.
If the right course is hit off, there is no hard climbing on the mountain, but the general steepness and abominably loose nature of its stony slopes render mountaineeringexperience or a good guide essential.
Nor have the inhabitants as yet succeeded in grasping even the existence of the mountaineering spirit, much less the profits to be gained from it.
For although I have been successful in reaching the second in height of these summits, this was, as it proved, little of a mountaineering feat compared to the passage of the gap beside it.
Tracks across the snow-arch showed that feet guided by true mountaineering instinct had lately crossed.
Forgetfulness of this fact has led to the worst of Alpine disasters, and it is by its tendency to ignore it that the doctrine of 'mountaineering without guides' is most dangerous.
Let me try to recall some of the impressions which mountaineering has left with me, and see whether they throw any light upon the subject.
The fact is that that which gives its inexpressible charm to mountaineering is the incessant series of exquisite natural scenes, which are for the most part enjoyed by the mountaineer alone.
Now the first merit ofmountaineering is that it enables one to have what theologians would call an experimental faith in the size of mountains--to substitute a real living belief for a dead intellectual assent.
Information about mountaineering may be obtained by applying to the superintendent of the park, or at any ranger station therein.
Those interested in mountaineering in the park should communicate with the Sierra Club.
One great charm of mountaineering in New Zealand is its loneliness; you feel that for the time the whole world is yours to enjoy--the beauty and the wonder are for you alone.
The great drawback to such mountaineering is that these necessaries must all be carried, and, as my guide considered that I had enough to do to carry myself, my only share was my own small camera.
Hence of Whymper the mountaineer--and mountaineering was in a sense with him a profession--as well as of Whymper the artist and the lecturer, I have nothing of interest to say.
One reason perhaps is that ofmountaineering I know comparatively nothing and of art even less.
Of his mountaineering experiences he said but little, and never once during the thirteen years that I knew him did he of his own accord refer to the historic Matterhorn tragedy.
Just as in mountaineering he never moved a step until he was certain of the foothold in front of him, so in conversation he never spoke before he thought.
You know I have no head and no ankles, and never ought to dream of mountaineering; and had I known that the ascent was a real mountaineering feat I should not have felt the slightest ambition to perform it.
A more successful ascent of the Peak was never made, and I would not now exchange my memories of its perfect beauty and extraordinary sublimity for any other experience of mountaineering in any part of the world.
These are tellingly related in that classic volume, "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada.
Oh," said Helen, "I had no idea that mountaineeringwas such a business.
I suppose you consider a short skirt, strong boots, a Tyrolese hat, and an alpenstock to be a sufficient rig-out, whereas my mountaineering costumes will fill five large trunks and three hat boxes.
Helen was fully alive to the fact that a woman who joins a mountaineering party should not impose her personal doubts on men who are willing to go on.
Chapin visited the region in 1888 and wrote a splendidly illustrated book about it, called "Mountaineering in Colorado.
King, Clarence, his "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" quoted, 11.
With that guerdon in mind let the mountaineering reader ask himself, "Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mountaineering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: checkers; chess; game; sport
