John Muir

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

American Environmentalist

Edmund Hillary

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

New Zealander Explorer

Conrad Anker

Perhaps you could say that mountaineers are driven by ego or our competitiveness, but there's a lot more to it than that. Whether it's a huge face in the Himalaya or some crag in the woods behind your house, exploration offers us a unique perspective on the world that you can't really find anywhere else.

American Athlete

Letitia Baldrige

Backpacks are obtrusive. They're great for school kids and mountaineers, but a woman is supposed to look enticing and glamorous at night. They obscure one of a woman's most erogenous zones, the nape of her neck. I suppose they're good if you want to keep men away.

American Writer

Tim Cope

Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.

Australian Author

Jeff Lowe

We as mountaineers have had a leading role in the destruction of the mountain wilderness environment that we practice our sport in.

Sam Heughan

I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits.

Scottish Actor

Divyanka Tripathi

Not many know that I'm a mountaineer, and my love for adventure will never die.

Indian Actress

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

Reinhold Messner

A tourist follows a trail; a mountaineer finds one.

Italian Explorer

Use 'mountaineer' to describe someone actively involved in climbing, not just interested in mountains.

Active Hobbyist

'Mountaineer' implies climbing significant mountains, not smaller hills or slopes.

Not Just Any Hill

A 'professional mountaineer' does this activity as a career, which includes sponsorships or guiding others.

Professional Implication

Refers to people whose way of life is influenced by living in mountainous regions.

Cultural Identity

Used more commonly to describe residents of well-known mountain ranges.

Geographical Use

Indicates people with traditions unique compared to non-mountainous communities.

Unique Traditions

 heard from conrad anchor an old friend and a world-class mountaineer conrad has summited everest three times including leading the nat geo expedition phil was a part of and conrad has made it a point to give back to the climbing community he established the kimbu climbing center in nepal a vocational school that helps

How Black Climbers Are...

 were killed in the support of Western mountaineers. Of course mountaineering is certainly by some people's view almost an indulgent type of a sport. We're not going to save anyone's life doing it. We might actually by not doing it save our own lives. But where we find ourselves and certainly what climbers share,

Risk Takers: Challenging...

 that can really avalanche off on that mountain. And I want to put in one like personal point of view photograph to show you what I see. What I have to do to make these photographs. I'm not a mountaineer, so these were this was a new environment for me. This is the, this is one of those tents right there.

Unsung Heroes of Everest...

 out in the elements and that's when David Sharpe is dying the media reacted swiftly to the news that David Sharpe was left to die David Sharpe ran into trouble on the mountain and he is passed by a number of climbers 40 other climbers passed by mountaineer David sharp as he lay dying as commercial

Left to Die PIPE National...

 of being the world's highest garbage dump. Decades after the first conquest of the world's highest peak, tons of rubbish left behind by climbers has started to raise concern, and you may have read in the news that there's speculation that Nepal will crack down on mountaineers

Let's clean up the space...

 boulders it's a little bit of green grass overlooking an awesome glacier so great day all-in-all I don't know where we are placement wise we did see the Mountaineers I believe we're in front of them I think we saved a lot of time with that rappel but you know I don't know

Video Diary Ep 4:...

 beginning I get the platform up for hot and sweaty job of carrying the metal platform up the steep slopes falls to biologists and mountaineer Steve back shop I'm very very glad that it's not me that's going to be living on it three weeks back on

Starting the Search PIPE...

 for my nations but there were several huge obstacles before he even set foot on the mountain first because of covid his guiding business had been slow and especially bad for a mountaineer about to tackle the climb of his life he was out of shape

Summiting the World’s...

 put yourself for a moment in the snow boots of a young max low several years ago he was on an expedition with three of the world's most famous mountaineers author john krakauer professional snowboarder jeremy

The Price of Adventure PIPE...

 could just go like sideline of the waterfall I mean this looks gnarly to me kasha as one of the world's elite ski Mountaineers with numerous first descents kasha plots a daring path with