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The sport of climbing mountains for no reason except that they're there and might kill you.
means The sport and discipline of climbing mountains, especially ones demanding technical skill in rock, ice, and snow.
from Straight from the Alps — the word was coined as European climbers in the 1800s turned those peaks from obstacles into objectives, founding clubs and codifying it as a sport. 'Alpine' had long meant 'of the Alps'; 'alpinism' bolted on the '-ism' to name the pursuit itself, and the term stuck even as climbers took it to ranges that had never seen a Swiss cowbell.
- origin era
- Born 1786, first Mont Blanc ascent
- core rule
- Self-sufficiency beats brute force equipment
- risk math
- Death rate rivals some war zones
- true win
- Style matters more than reaching summit