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mountaineers

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plural of mountaineer

as in walkers

a person who climbs mountains; a mountain climber They were guided on the adventure by an experienced mountaineer who had scaled many of the country's highest peaks.

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Recent Examples of mountaineers The 43-year-old was among 10 mountaineers who went missing on Thursday after they were believed to have been on the 8,047-meter-tall Broad Peak, in northern Pakistan, when a landslide hit around midday local time. — Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2026 The other missing members of the climbers are Nepalese mountaineers led by climber Nims Dai, Pakistani climber Sohail Sakhi of Hunza, a Chinese climber and one other foreign climber, according to the Alpine Club of Pakistan. — ABC News, 31 July 2026 The country’s identity is intimately intertwined with mountaineering and Mount Everest, still a significant economic driver as tourists and serious mountaineers converge on the country in the spring and summer. — Vasuki Shastry, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 Only, perhaps, a constitutional aversion to thinking ill of mountaineers. — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 Built in 1879 by enterprising townsfolk, the Zermatterhof has been welcoming royalty, celebrities, and intrepid mountaineers for nearly a century and a half. — Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2026 The film follows both the mountaineers caught in the storm and the rescue teams racing against time to save them. — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 15 May 2026 Western climbers have declined due to rising travel costs and geopolitical tensions, but Asian mountaineers have surged this season after China shuttered its route to the peak. — Binaj Gurubacharya, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026 The all-new Sip Essential takes the company's longstanding personal filter straw format and halves weight, ensuring that even the lightest-traveling speed hikers and mountaineers don't find themselves up a creek without a filter. — New Atlas, 15 Apr. 2026

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The shortest of the trails here; the Transcarioca could be completed in 12 days or so; walkers can stay in a handful of hostels or campgrounds along the way, or in hotels and guesthouses in nearby neighborhoods.

— Gloria Liu, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2026
These fast walkers had a 51% lower risk of developing cognitive impairment than their peers.

— Danielle Zickl, Health, 20 July 2026

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