Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:45 pm
What, this thread has set five hours without comment? Well, let me address that shortfall ...
Was just browsing my copy of Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills. While I did not come across definitions of mountaineering, climbing or hiking, it's quite obvious from just browsing the general language in the text that mountaineering is the business of getting to the top of a summit. There's no quibbling over whether it's "climbed," "hiked" or "walked" (which term is actually used as one way to reach the summit of a mountain).
--mark d.
Was just browsing my copy of Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills. While I did not come across definitions of mountaineering, climbing or hiking, it's quite obvious from just browsing the general language in the text that mountaineering is the business of getting to the top of a summit. There's no quibbling over whether it's "climbed," "hiked" or "walked" (which term is actually used as one way to reach the summit of a mountain).
--mark d.