How to Use mountaineer in a Sentence

mountaineer

noun

• Why should the great mountain make the mountaineer sad?
  — Peter Pesic, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• And for a mountaineer, reaching the summit is the Holy Grail.
  — USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
• When war broke out in 1939, the mountaineers were forced to abandon the Himalayas for the front.
  — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2020
• For ideas, look to the pros: early Alpine mountaineers.
  — Vogue, 12 Nov. 2018
• No one can ever understand the heart and the mind of a mountaineer.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 23 May 2024
• The 40-year-old Steck was one of the most-renowned mountaineers of his generation.
  — Binaj Gurubacharya and Frank Jordans, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2017
• Matthiessen, no mountaineer at the start of this journey, learns to walk nearly on air; but at what cost, and to what end?
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• Days before the coup, the body of Johnson was buried in a small mountaineer’s cemetery near the trailheads to Aconcagua.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• But for a few weeks every spring, the winds die down and mountaineers from all corners take a shot at reaching the top of the world.
  — Emily Barone, Time, 11 June 2019
• Mitja Lo Duca was one of the most promising mountaineers in 1980s Yugoslavia.
  — Ann Abel, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• The mountaineer was one of nine climbers killed when a freak snow storm hit Nepal’s Mount Gurja in October 2018.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 30 Oct. 2019
• Those record numbers caused some mountaineers to blame the 11 deaths this year on overcrowding.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
• Two decades ago, 58-year-old mountaineer Bill Stampfl tried to reach the top of Peru’s highest mountain.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2024
• Even in the midst of this historic feat, Purja felt instances of being erased as a Nepalese mountaineer.
  — Alexandra Svokos, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2022
• The shadow falls most on Reinhold Messner, the Italian mountaineer who was first to claim all 14 peaks.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2021
• Over the past few decades, Hilaree has established herself as one of the best ski mountaineers in the world.
  — Kate Siber, Outside Online, 3 Apr. 2018
• From the wide-open landscapes of the West and the outback, rose up cowboys and sheriffs, rebels and renegades, miners and mountaineers.
  — Nina Zafar, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2019
• These birds have been recorded flying four and a half miles above the earth’s surface, and mountaineers claim to have seen them over Mount Everest.
  — Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2019
• Of course even the most skilled mountaineers need logistics and local support on the world’s highest peaks.
  — Yana Wengel, Quartzy, 11 June 2019
• Head up to the Alps past the beautiful Lac d'Annecy, to spend an unforgettable night sleeping on the cliff-face like a mountaineer.
  — Jack Dancy, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• The mountaineer: Thousands of people climb Half Dome each year, using cables to ascend the last 400 feet.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2017
• In the early days after restoration, the iron routes of the Dolomites were primarily used by skilled mountaineers.
  — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
• In April, three Sherpa mountaineers died after being buried under an ice mass in the area.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
• The search for the missing eighth mountaineer will continue, Jogdande said.
  — CBS News, 23 June 2019
• Last year 27 trainee mountaineers were killed in an avalanche in the northern Uttarakhand region.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2023
• For mountaineers who scale Everest, there is no place higher to summit.
  — Phil Davison, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2018
• And if Dad's a skier, mountaineer, or winter camper, even better.
  — Matt Jancer, Wired, 18 June 2020
• There were some, but we were surrounded by experts and mountaineers.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
• These mountains have traditionally been the realm of mountaineers and professional high-alpine guides, not trail runners.
  — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2024
• Hrvoje and Dunja had met at university as young mountaineers—outdoors clubs offered a form of insulation from the Communist regime.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024