mountain ascent
Going up peaks
Mountain ascent is the act of climbing a mountain, emphasizing the upward journey rather than the peak itself: The mountain ascent took three days.
The phrase often appears in mountaineering contexts where the climb's difficulty, route, or conditions matter: Weather forced them to abandon the mountain ascent at 20,000 feet.
- cramponsSpiked boot attachments
- climbingAscending by physical effort
- scramblingMoving clumsily in haste
- rope teamLinked climbers sharing protection
- enduranceSustained effort capacity
harness · base camp · peak · ridge · vertical gain · glacier · snowfield · determination · crevasse · fear · first ascents · prayer flags · ropes · hiking · acclimatization · high altitude · thin air · ice axe
- Backcountry Skiingskins, skinning, transceiver, avalanche risk, powder
- questsquest, seeking, main quest, searching, side quest
- mountain railwaysfunicular, cog railway, cable car, gondola lift, aerial tramway
vertical direction of movement
mountain ascentdescent
Downward slope or lineage
going down · downclimb · rappel · abseil · coming down
mountain, ascent, mount, mountains, mountainous, mountaineer, mountaineering, mounted, mounting