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What Is "Climbing" For You?


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I want a single easy word to describe everything I enjoy doing in the mountains. I use "climbing."

 

Actually two words. There's "skiing" too.

Skiing often falls in with "climbing" for me. Generally I just use the phrase "I went for a wander"

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I want a single easy word to describe everything I enjoy doing in the mountains. I use "climbing."

 

Actually two words. There's "skiing" too.

 

Hence the invention of the word mountaineering. thumbs_up.gif

 

Two problems with mountaineering:

 

1) It's four syllables, whereas climbing is two, making mountaineering stories much harder to tell when drunk than climbing stories. You can say you climbed a peak but not that you mountaineered it. Although hiking works well for an all-purpose word too. I told my parents that I only went hiking solo in Lofoten.

 

2) In some circles, you may need to be careful if you call yourself a m[M]ountaineer.

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