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Mountaineering vs Alpinism - What's the difference?

mountaineering | alpinism |

As nouns the difference between mountaineering and alpinism

is that mountaineering is (sport) the sport of climbing mountains while alpinism is mountain climbing, especially in the Alps.

mountaineering

English

(wikipedia mountaineering)

Noun

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  • (senseid) the sport of climbing mountains

    • Synonyms

    * mountain climbing

    alpinism

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (sometimes capitalized) Mountain climbing, especially in the Alps.
  • * 1912 , "New Maps," Bulletin of the American Geographical Society , vol. 44, no. 7, p. 558,
  • *:. . . our rapidly increasing knowledge of the Rocky Mountains of Canada for which geography is so greatly indebted to alpinism .

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