Word List Mountaineering, Alpinism 257 words

Mountaineering, Alpinism Vocabulary Word List (257)

• A

  abate, acclimatization, adventure, aesthetics, alpine, Alps, altitude, amateur, ambivalence, antipodal, apex, appellation, apprenticeship, arduous, ascent, aspire, audacious, augur, august

• B

  behemoth, benign, bivouac

• C

  calamitous, carapace, castigate, catharsis, cautionary, certification, challenge, claustrophobia, cliff, climber, cloud line, cloudless, coherence, cohorts, coil, compulsion, conditions, cordon, cornice, countenance, courageous, crampon, crevasse

• D

  dangle, daring, death, debilitating, demeanor, demesnes, depletion, descend, descent, determination, distance, dramatic

• E

  ebullient, edema, effervescent, elements, enigma, entreaty, entrophy, epitomize, equipment, equivocal, escapade, escarpment, evacuation, evaluation, evidence, exacerbate, excruciating, exhaustion, expedition, experience, expert, expertise

• F

  face, fallacy, falls, fear, fetid, fitness, foray, formidable, fortuitous, frantic, freedom, frenetic, frenzy

• G

  gangrenous, gargantuan, gauntlet, glacial, glacier, grip, grueling, guide, gyre

• H

  hamper, handhold, hazardous, heed, height, high altitude, hubris, hues, humongous, hunker, hypoxia

• I

  imbroglio, impale, impede, imposing, incisor, inertia, infirmity, inherent, injury, innocuous, instinct, intensity, intrinsic, invincible, irrefutable

• J

  jagged, jeopardize, jettison, jostle, joy

• K

  keen, knapsack, knickers, knot

• L

  laceration, languish, lee, legendary, lethargy

• M

  machismo, maneuver, maw, meager, monochromatic, moraine, movement, myriad

• N

  nature, neophyte, novice

• O

  obsession, opportunity, option, oscillation, outcropping, outdoors

• P

  packs, pain, passion, peak, peripheral, pinnacle, plumb-line, plume, plummet, plunge, potent, precarious, precaution, precipitous, professional, proliferation, promontory, propriety, protocol, protuberance

• Q

  quest, queue, quiet, quintessential, quit

• R

  rappel, refraction, regulator, relinquish, relish, remote, rescind, rescue, resistance, resolute, resonate, respectful, reward, rime, risk, rogue, rope, rough, route, rubble

• S

  safety, scale, schist, scrim, serac, serrate, Sherpa, sporadic, sputum, stability, steep, stipulation, strait, strength, succumb, summit, supine, survey

• T

  taciturn, tendril, terrain, terrestrial, throng, top-tier, training, tranquility, tread, trek, trekker

• U

  undermine, unstintingly, untrammeled, up, upwards

• V

  vast, veneer, venerate, veteran, victim, violation, visceral

• W

  wall, weary, weather, whistling winds, worry

• X

  x-ray

• Y

  yak, yearning, young, youth

• Z

  zealous, zest