alpland

Noun

alpland (countable and uncountable, plural alplands)

1. Terrain characterized by alps.
   • A region of superb mountain grandeur where peak after peak lifts its frosty head above the clouds, where the remnants of the last great Ice Age still lie in thick fields upon the shoulders of the mountains and flow down in slow frozen rivers or leaping green streams to the valleys below; a region...1928, M. B. Williams, Jasper National Park, Ottawa, Ont.: F. A. Acland, page 3
   • Forget-me-not Pass was an alpland filled to overflowing with colorful flower displays: red Indian paintbrush, purple asters, yellow buttercups, and, of course, myriads of blue forgetme-nots.1989, Cyndi Smith, Off the Beaten Track: Women Adventurers and Mountaineers in Western Canada, Waterton Park, Atla.: Coyote Books, →ISBN, page 93