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  • noun Plural form of mountaineer.

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Examples

  • An elderly woman came to us and said, β€œAin't you two men what they call mountaineers?”

    Chief of Scouts Drannan, William F 1910

  • Skiing as practiced by ski mountaineers is immeasurably different from skiing as it is understood by the overwhelming majority of modern skiers.

    Downhill Racing 1969

  • Skiing as practiced by ski mountaineers is immeasurably different from skiing as it is understood by the overwhelming majority of modern skiers.

    Downhill Racing 1949

  • And experienced mountaineers, which is what this is, whether you are climbing or whether you are hiking as Rob was alluding to earlier, they know this.

    CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2006 2006

  • The Austrians had again called the mountaineers to arms, and a considerable force under Laudon was gathered to resist the invaders.

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889

  • The air is highly salubrious, and the mountaineers are the Goliah's of the land.

    Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A. M. Elizabeth Willits Crooks 1875

  • They believed they were menaced with an attack of Indios monteros (wild Indians called mountaineers); and the people were not perfectly tranquilized, till they saw the birds soaring in the air, and continuing their migration towards the mouths of the Orinoco.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • The early inhabitants of India before their comparative civilisation under the influence of the Aryan invaders, like the aborigines of Ceylon before the arrival of their Bengal conquerors, are described as mountaineers and foresters who were "rakshas" or demon worshippers; a religion, the traces of which are to be found to the present day amongst the hill tribes in the Concan and Canara, as well as in Guzerat and

    Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836

  • They believed they were menaced with an attack of Indios monteros (wild Indians called mountaineers); and the people were not perfectly tranquilized, till they saw the birds soaring in the air, and continuing their migration towards the mouths of the Orinoco.

    Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 β€” Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • When the _montagnards_ [4] or mountaineers, that is, those monsters who were always thirsting for blood, divided, he appeared for some time to belong to the party of

    Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798

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