Sentence examples for alpine mountaineering from inspiring English sources

REPORTER AT LARGE about Chamonix; the surrounding mountain and the history of Alpine mountaineering.

By Jeremy Bernstein The New Yorker, March 13 , 1965P. 130 REPORTER AT LARGE about Chamonix; the surrounding mountain and the history of Alpine mountaineering.

He became certified as a wilderness emergency medical technician in Jackson Hole, Wyo., where he also trained as an Alpine mountaineering guide in the Grand Teton Mountains.

It's a good day's walk, culminating in the real Alpine mountaineering experience of a night in the Hörnli Hut before your return the next morning.

My favourite type of climbing is alpine mountaineering where I can pit myself against the most inspiring and iconic peaks in the Alps.

A year-round resort surrounded by mountains and glaciers, it commands some of the finest views in Switzerland and is also a popular centre for Alpine mountaineering and winter sports.

▶ older than 16 years ▶ alpinism (cave, rock climbing, mountaineering, alpine skiing), ▶ bobsleigh, ▶ ju-jitsu: full contact, ▶ kickboxing: full contact, ▶ Muaythai (Thai boxing) – participation in competitions, ▶ pilot-operator of flying models, * ▶ glider pilot, * ▶ parachute jumping, * ▶ motor vehicle sports.

She employed the Alpine style of mountaineering pioneered by climber Reinhold Messner and others, in which climbers carry a minimal amount of equipment on expeditions, have little or no outside support (e.g., porters), and do not use supplemental oxygen.

He has, he says, "been presumptuous for 47 years, so there's no sense in stopping now". In "Medium:Rare," he sent a performer rebounding from a trampoline; "Aurora I" took company members mountaineering over a stage-filling Alpine ramp, and in "Over the Pavement" the choreographer had male dancers literally climbing the walls.

This trek was the first recorded crossing of the mountainous island, completed without tents, sleeping bags, or map their only mountaineering equipment was a carpenter's adze, a length of alpine rope, and screws from the James Caird hammered through their boots to serve as crampons.

Her first trials in mountaineering were done at the age of twelve, when with her father, Mr. Claude MacDonald, of Lancaster Gate, London, a member of the Alpine Club, she made ascents of several Scottish mountains.