mountaineered

Verb

mountaineer (third-person singular simple present mountaineers, present participle mountaineering, simple past and past participle mountaineered)

1. (intransitive) To climb mountains; to climb using the techniques of a mountaineer.
   • […] they had returned in safety to Europe, and were now in Switzerland, where they were mountaineering with great vigour.1872, James Payn, chapter 23, in Cecil’s Tryst, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 245
2. (figuratively, intransitive) To climb as if on a mountain.
   • There is a well-made path, which makes a circuit over the mass [of ruins], and is amply sufficient for all rational tourists. Those who wish to see more have to go mountaineering over gigantic columns and pilasters, and squeeze their way through passes of cut stone.1903, E. M. Forster, “Alberto Empedocle”, in The Life to Come, and Other Stories, Penguin, published 1975, page 47

   Synonyms:

   clamber, hike

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