Alpinism
Full definition of alpinism
Noun
alpinism
(uncountable)- (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.