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  • noun Plural form of hillwalker.

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Examples

  • The pub and restaurant is on the main sailing route to Skye, the Outer Hebrides and the Small Isles and attracts yachtsmen, hillwalkers and tourists throughout the year.

    Family travel 10,000 miles to view Britain's most remote pub 2010

  • Perhaps you'd like to show us, teach us poor dumb hillwalkers a thing or two?

    Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

  • Location shots were in Glen Doll, Angus, which produced its own challenges including torrential rain and curious hillwalkers.

    Filmstalker: Star Trek Intrepid from Scotland 2006

  • It was amazing to see all the women of the village decked out in their most elegant finery with their hair painstakingly arranged for this two day trek, while we two looked like sweaty, grubby hillwalkers!

    Archive 2006-09-01 Thatsnews 2006

  • It was amazing to see all the women of the village decked out in their most elegant finery with their hair painstakingly arranged for this two day trek, while we two looked like sweaty, grubby hillwalkers!

    Teaching English in Nepal - Volunteer Nepal Thatsnews 2006

  • Although it is predominantly used by deaf and speech-impaired people who find it difficult to use the phone, hillwalkers and other people often in dangerous situations with poor mobile phone signal have also used it.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Print Highland heath fire threat to nearby properties It is understood hillwalkers had to be airlifted to safety from Liathach.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • It is understood the blaze also resulted in hillwalkers being airlifted to safety from Liathach, Torridon.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • It has been burning over the long weekend and has led to the evacuation of a campsite and the airlifting of several hillwalkers to safety.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Although it is predominantly used by deaf and speech-impaired people who find it difficult to use the phone, hillwalkers and other people often in dangerous situations with poor mobile phone signal have also used it.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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