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mountaineer

1 of 2noun
/ˌmaʊntənˈɪr/
Forms:mountaineers
1

a person who engages in the activity of climbing mountains

  • His dream, ever since he was a child, was to become a mountaineer and stand atop the world's tallest mountains.
  • The documentary followed a group of mountaineers on their daring expedition to scale the world's most treacherous peaks.