What is Mountaineering?
Mountaineering refers to the wide range of activities that can take place in a mountain environment. Rock Climbing, Ice climbing and Skiing are the main traditional sports practiced within the mountaineering spectrum however, other less traditional sports do exists and many more will eventually come. The commonality between all of these sports is the summit objective. Mountaineering refers to attaining the summit, climbing the ice and rock that lead to the summit, skiing to and from the summit or perhaps climbing and paragliding off the summit. In mountaineering the objective supersedes the method need to succeed. An example of this is heli-sking a form of ski mountaineering, uses a helicopter to reach the summit. Another appropriate example is expedition style climbing, on long routes that require more logistics and equipment along with a larger margin of safety the expedition team and strategies are established to increase the chances of success while maintaining the largest margin o
