Mountaineering terminology

[pozorvlak]

I'd like to clarify the question in my last post, namely "what is mountaineering?". Let's start by introducing some standard terminology so we've got something to work with.

Comments

[anonymous]

How about defining Mountaineering as reaching the tops of mountains that require experience or an experienced companion to climb safely?

[elvum]

Also, how about I log in? :-)

[anonymous]

Already wikipedia has a problem with the difference between mountaineering and hillwalking

[ext_5743]

My understanding of the term "mixed climbing" was that it typically involved the ascent of snow-covered bouldery gullies - you are generally wearing crampons and using either one or two axes, but you may be standing on lightly snow-covered rock rather than packed snow or hard ice.