How to Use alpinist in a Sentence

alpinist

noun
  • For those of us who are even skittish on a stepladder, concern was there from the start of this portrait of an alpinist as a young man.
    — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The new mural no longer depicts Sacagawea and her son, but still has the alpinist, whose head is a coyote.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Hofer was an alpinist himself and a mountain-rescue volunteer.
    — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Legendary alpinist Alex Lowe’s life and untimely death have been the stuff of climbing legend for decades.
    — Daniella Byck, Outside Online, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Berghaus embraced the punks and ravers, recognizing in them a version of the subversive spirit that drives the very best alpinists.
    — Jeff Moag, Outside, 24 Nov. 2025
  • These lodgings cater to hikers, mountain bikers, alpinists and in winter, skiers and snowboarders.
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • For alpinists, the public’s fascination with the highest mountains is a bit like judging an ocean swimmer by how deep the water is.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The real emotions that alpinists like me are experiencing on a mountain can only be captured on our own, by ourselves.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Take alpinist Leo Houlding, who once raced an Audi supercar to the top of a Swiss mountain—and won.
    — Jeff Moag, Outside, 24 Nov. 2025
  • This new edition, tested by Simon Messner, has a deeper connection with the alpinist.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Mallory’s remains were found by alpinist Conrad Anker in 1999.
    — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Once upon a time, alpinists laboriously hacked steps into it — literal stairways to heaven.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Foreigners have been streaming into Switzerland for centuries—poets, painters, alpinists—and the country long ago adapted to their presence.
    — Alice Gregory, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
  • While some lament the move from bright blue to a subtler black, this simple product born from the industry that brings us yellowtail from ocean-to-plate has become an alpinist favorite without rival.
    — Maury Birdwell, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Top alpinists have lauded the feat as one of the most significant in climbing, exceeding the difficulty of scaling Everest.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The museum displays the rudimentary equipment and clothing that alpinists once used and showcases their great achievements in conquering mountains here and abroad.
    — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The original artwork seemed a hodgepodge of images, including a skateboard, an arm, a flying insect, a hummingbird and an alpinist, or extreme mountain climber.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The legendary alpinist Jeff Lowe ran the first Ice Fest here in 1996, drawing a modest crowd of a few hundred people.
    — James Dziezynski, Outside Online, 5 Aug. 2024
  • To many of those inside the world of mountaineering, though, Nims Purja is a climber in every sense of the word — as much a showboat and a hustle-minded careerist as a talented alpinist.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2023
  • But there is a subset of outdoor athletes who seem to have found the genetic safety switch in their mitochondria and turned it off—folks like ski alpinist Christina Lustenberger.
    — Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Allow ski alpinist Christina Lustenberger to explain.
    — Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2025
  • And as Mount Everest has become dominated by commercial ascents, these routes have only grown in popularity, since most of the climbers are not hardened alpinists.
    — Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 15 May 2025
  • The famed film chronicles the at-the-time bonkers quest of Japanese alpinist Yuichiro Miura to ascend the world’s highest peak and then descend it—well, part of it, anyway—on skis.
    — Outside, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The Temres quickly caught on in Aylward’s climbing circles—including with an up-and-coming alpinist named Colin Haley.
    — Maury Birdwell, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
  • California’s 14,179-foot Mount Shasta is an ideal classroom for budding alpinists.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 10 Mar. 2026
  • As glacier melting increases, something many scientists blame on global warming, there has been a recent increase in discoveries of the remains of hikers, skiers and other Alpinists who went missing decades ago.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 28 July 2023
  • In his early days an alpinist, 8,000-meter peaks represented isolated, remote objectives—true wilderness.
    — Owen Clarke, Outside, 6 Oct. 2025
  • His optimism was buoyed by the fact that both the current record and the one before it, set by French alpinist Marc Batard and Kaji Sherpa, respectively, were achieved in the fall.
    — Ben Ayers, Outside, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Before becoming an Oscar-winning filmmaker, Chin enjoyed a decades-long career as an alpinist, rock climber, backcountry skier, and photographer.
    — Adam Skolnick, Outside Online, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Moreover, Trucco argued, the rifugio had cultural significance, and was inextricable from the local alpinist heritage.
    — The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2021

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