Meaning of alpenstocker | Babel Free

Definitions

A mountain-climber, especially one that uses an alpenstock.

Examples

“I started to give⟳ Lucky a digest of the Perugia affair, but we were interrupted by a group of German alpenstockers who clumped into the chamber under the guide⟳ of a female ramrod.”

“Careful to step over the bergschrund and not fall⟳ down in and get⟳ extruded out the foot of the ice centuries hence, as an old glaciology prof used to tell⟳ it and cackle, true to some dear dead alpenstocker pipesmoker in the years before the lab took your best years.”

“We attempted to reach⟳ Professor LaFave upon receipt of this article, only to learn⟳ that LaFave, a confirmed alpenstocker, had earlier departed for Europe to undertake⟳ the grueling ascent of the forbidding south face⟳ of the Matterhorn.”

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