How To Use Alpinist In A Sentence
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It is a flip-flop with crampons, discarded by an alpinist on a beach holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a flip-flop with crampons, discarded by an alpinist on a beach holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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He became interested in freestyle climbing in the early 1970s after meeting some alpinists near Dresden who demonstrated that the true appeal of rock climbing lay in the difficulty of the face, not the altitude of the peak.
Obituary: Freestyle mountain climber Kurt Albert dies of injuries from fall
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He is named after a mountain in the Pirin massif and dad's an alpinist.
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But, Trimborn writes, despite such arguments, it would be an oversimplification to consider the mountain films exclusively as prefascist creations, as this does not take into consideration the complex roots of the genre, including the literature of Romanticism, the alpinist movement, and the nature cult of the early twentieth century.
GreenCine Daily
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He's fast becoming the best Himalayan alpinist of this or any generation.
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The last conversation I had with alpinist Alex Lowe, in August 1999 in Salt Lake City over a tumbler of single-malt, was about how many chin-ups a climber needed to do to stay fit for the mountains.
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Police have told the Austria Press Agency they located the partial skeleton Thursday after an alpinist gave them human bones and a hiking boot that he found near a glacier.
Austrian Mountain Climber's Remains Found After 54 Years
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It's the brainchild of Mr. Twight, a legendary American alpinist whose idea of fun was to climb Alaska's Mount Denali by a brutally challenging route in 60 sleepless hours.
Training That's Beyond Boot Camp
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When Washburn was 16, his father, an Episcopal minister, took the family on a six-month sabbatical to Europe, where the fledgling alpinist summited Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn.
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In 1893, alpinist Malcolm Ross completed the climb alone saying it was one of the most difficult he'd done.
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And let it be known that Michael Kennedy is also an accomplished skier, loves ski mountaineering, and has plenty of insight into issues important to glisse alpinists.
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By 20, he was regarded as one of the boldest young alpinists in the country.
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No alpinist worth his ice ax wants to be accused of climbing a mountain in lesser style than those who came before.
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Alpinists and skiers (or bushwhackers, for that matter) need flexible packs that move with the body, which means a minimal frame - just a pair of stays, really.
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The town's location at the foot of Europe's highest mountain and the centre of every serious alpinist's universe is not in question.
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I don't suppose many alpinists would have committed such a picayune ascent to paper, but I found the exercise useful.
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You can bike, swim, or run your way to a stronger heart and lungs, but since climbing demands more than just cardio fitness, trail running works best for alpinists.
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One of the worlds top alpinist, Tomaz Humar, died this past week on the remote Nepalese peak Langtang Lirung, 23,711ft 7227m.
Alanarnette.com
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Many top alpinists set off on expeditions with a Washburn contact print, a hand-drawn map, and a scouting report sent by Washburn himself.
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In the future, alpinists will treat Mount McKinley like a quadruple-black-diamond downhill run.
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The Zmutt Ridge was climbed by the famous English alpinist Albert Frederick Mummery in 1879.
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She was America's leading female alpinist, the only woman internationally to climb six of 14 peaks that measured 8,000 meters: Gasherbrum II, Lhotse, Cho Oyu, Broad Peak, Shishapangma, and Everest (twice), and the record holder of unexplored first mountain ascents.
Jane Dwyre Garton: Remembering Chris Boskoff
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Apparently the cool-ometer has swung back to the more traditional alpinist.
The Sun
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That encounter stands as my enlightenment as a ski mountaineer - that day I became as much a glisse alpinist as a climber.
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Apparently the cool-ometer has swung back to the more traditional alpinist.
The Sun
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This month, alpinist Mark Synnott tests the sharpest new ice axes, crampons, ice screws, leashes, and screamers.
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Russian cross-country skiers have explored the region for 30 years, but it's been largely missed by alpinists.
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Backcountry skiers, especially European glisse alpinists, wanted the benefits of this latest alpine gear, only with the option of lifting their heel for hiking.
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This talented and charismatic alpinist also knows Bass, yet he awkwardly dismissed attempting to influence him by mumbling banalities about how everyone has to work within their own comfort zone.
David Holbrooke: Skiing and Sacrifice
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While I'm not an alpinist myself, this book has been inspirational in all my outdoor activities.
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Those very sites of domestication would later provide staging areas for twentieth-century alpinist excursions into the Cedarberg wilderness.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
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I was climbing with Barry Blanchard, a noted Canadian alpinist, heading up a route called Grand Central Couloir, a steep, technical gully that splits the north face of Kitchener.
A Nature for the Great Outdoors
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Still, although these preclimb climbing trips have honed many an alpinist's mental acuity, mountain acumen, and technical skill, they are usually too short to effectively jump-start physiological acclimatization.
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I'd asked Mark Twight to be my partner because he was a bold alpinist known for climbing fast and light, an ascetic philosophy I live by.
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Operating without adequate fuel reserves was one of the issues that put these four alpinists in trouble.
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This month, alpinist Mark Synnott tests the sharpest new ice axes, crampons, ice screws, leashes, and screamers.
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DeChristopher was at OR to talk about his latest climate action, which revolves around Dick Bass, an amateur alpinist who was the first man to climb the Seven Summits (the highest peaks on each continent) and the owner of the famed Snowbird ski resort outside of Salt Lake City.
David Holbrooke: Skiing and Sacrifice
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I perceived him as an alpinist ready to climb the Mont Blanc.
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They did it alpinist style: just the two of them roped together and carrying all their equipment on their backs.