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means Someone who ascends rock, ice, or mountains using hands, feet, and gear — whether as sport, obsession, or profession.

from A straightforward agent noun: 'climb' plus '-er.' The verb traces back to Old English 'climban,' meaning to grip and ascend, part of a West Germanic family of words sharing that same clambering sense. No myth needed here — the word has simply described people who go up things for well over a thousand years, long before anyone did it for fun.