Mountain CV

[pozorvlak]

I'm going to Skye at the weekend, to spend some time with my parents and to do a section of the Cuillin with a couple of friends. We're going to try and link a couple of the cruxes (the Inaccessible Pinnacle and the TD Gap) in a day - the full traverse is apparently better attempted as a two-day trip. My Dad offered to hire us a guide, which struck

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[mejoff]

My (completely personal and unqualified) definition is any prolonged ascent of a landscpae feature where the hands are used too much for it to reasonably be called 'walking up'.

[pozorvlak]

Typically, people use the word "scrambling" to describe ascending using the hands and feet, but without technical gear or difficult climbing moves, and "a scramble" to describe a route that requires scrambling but no technical climbing. So, for you, sustained scrambling counts as mountaineering?

[Absolutely not being critical - yours is a perfectly sensible definition. I'm really trying to get a feel for where different people draw the line between "hillwalking" and "mountaineering" - or even if they draw it at all.]

[mejoff]

Basically yeah, once you're pulling yourself up significant bists of it rather than walking, the thing's ceased to be a hill as far as I'm concerned.

[nastyicydeath]

Firstly some things that are not mountaineering. Climbing at a climbing wall is not mountaineering, neither is bouldering. I think that sea cliff climbing isn't mountaineering either, probably because there isn't a mountain involved. I think there has to be a mountain involved. I don't think riding up snowdon on my mountain bike is mountaineering, so it probably has to be on foot. Piste skiing is not mountaineering, but ski mountaineering is

[pozorvlak]

That sounds pretty comprehensive, and yes, I'll allow you skis ;-)