How to Use mountaineer in a Sentence

mountaineer

noun
  • No one can ever understand the heart and the mind of a mountaineer.
    — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 23 May 2024
  • No stranger to risk calculus, the ski mountaineer knows her senate bid is a long shot.
    — Anna Callaghan, Outside Online, 23 Oct. 2024
  • There are élite mountaineers who, starting very early, might manage it.
    — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Everest was no longer solely the domain of mountaineers.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 May 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
  • Matthiessen, no mountaineer at the start of this journey, learns to walk nearly on air; but at what cost, and to what end?
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • And for a mountaineer, reaching the summit is the Holy Grail.
    — USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
  • Some mountaineers may have regarded the retreat as a failure of nerve.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • For mountaineers who scale Everest, there is no place higher to summit.
    — Phil Davison, Washington Post, 28 June 2018
  • For mountaineers who scale Everest, there is no place higher to summit.
    — Phil Davison, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2018
  • But for a few weeks every spring, the winds die down and mountaineers from all corners take a shot at reaching the top of the world.
    — Emily Barone, Time, 11 June 2019
  • And if Dad's a skier, mountaineer, or winter camper, even better.
    — Matt Jancer, Wired, 18 June 2020
  • Those record numbers caused some mountaineers to blame the 11 deaths this year on overcrowding.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
  • The towering peaks and glaciers have made the park a destination for hardy mountaineers for decades.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 20 June 2025
  • Of course even the most skilled mountaineers need logistics and local support on the world’s highest peaks.
    — Yana Wengel, Quartzy, 11 June 2019
  • By then, Grace was known as one of the most accomplished mountaineers in Alaska.
    — Cassidy Randall, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Most ski-touring lodges are no-frills huts that cater to hardy mountaineers who’d balk at the idea of taking a gondola or a lift.
    — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The 40-year-old Steck was one of the most-renowned mountaineers of his generation.
    — Binaj Gurubacharya and Frank Jordans, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2017
  • The search for the missing eighth mountaineer will continue, Jogdande said.
    — CBS News, 23 June 2019
  • There have also been skydivers, legendary mountaineers, renowned scientists, and heads of state.
    — Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2026
  • When war broke out in 1939, the mountaineers were forced to abandon the Himalayas for the front.
    — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Over the past few decades, Hilaree has established herself as one of the best ski mountaineers in the world.
    — Kate Siber, Outside Online, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Hunter, then 20 years old and an experienced mountaineer, flew 25 yards down a slope.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
  • In April, three Sherpa mountaineers died after being buried under an ice mass in the area.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • People who pursue the sublime in nature—mountaineers, scuba divers, and the like—are often on the hunt for it.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Even in the midst of this historic feat, Purja felt instances of being erased as a Nepalese mountaineer.
    — Alexandra Svokos, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Last year 27 trainee mountaineers were killed in an avalanche in the northern Uttarakhand region.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Days before the coup, the body of Johnson was buried in a small mountaineer’s cemetery near the trailheads to Aconcagua.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Victims are frequently ski mountaineers or freeriders.
    — NPR, 2 Nov. 2025
  • In the early days after restoration, the iron routes of the Dolomites were primarily used by skilled mountaineers.
    — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024

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