How to Use alpinist in a Sentence

alpinist

noun

• For alpinists, the public’s fascination with the highest mountains is a bit like judging an ocean swimmer by how deep the water is.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• The new mural no longer depicts Sacagawea and her son, but still has the alpinist, whose head is a coyote.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2022
• For those of us who are even skittish on a stepladder, concern was there from the start of this portrait of an alpinist as a young man.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
• Legendary alpinist Alex Lowe’s life and untimely death have been the stuff of climbing legend for decades.
  — Daniella Byck, Outside Online, 9 Feb. 2022
• To many of those inside the world of mountaineering, though, Nims Purja is a climber in every sense of the word — as much a showboat and a hustle-minded careerist as a talented alpinist.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2023
• The Temres quickly caught on in Aylward’s climbing circles—including with an up-and-coming alpinist named Colin Haley.
  — Maury Birdwell, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
• The original artwork seemed a hodgepodge of images, including a skateboard, an arm, a flying insect, a hummingbird and an alpinist, or extreme mountain climber.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2022
• He is married with two sons and after a 35-year consulting engineering career related to water and wastewater infrastructure projects, Swenson retired to become a full time climber and alpinist.
  — Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
• Before becoming an Oscar-winning filmmaker, Chin enjoyed a decades-long career as an alpinist, rock climber, backcountry skier, and photographer.
  — Adam Skolnick, Outside Online, 12 Sep. 2022
• Moreover, Trucco argued, the rifugio had cultural significance, and was inextricable from the local alpinist heritage.
  — The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2021
• Leclerc, a freakishly accomplished young alpinist, taught Harrington — previously a rock climber — how to traverse dangerously unpredictable terrain.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
• As glacier melting increases, something many scientists blame on global warming, there has been a recent increase in discoveries of the remains of hikers, skiers and other Alpinists who went missing decades ago.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 28 July 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024