On the other hand, it is a must for mountaineers.
Society is prepared to invest vast amounts of resources in rescuing mountaineers who encounter difficulties, or those who are missing at sea.
If differentiation was attempted, it tended to concentrate on either occupational or scientific criteria, such as whether someone was a scientist, explorer, mountaineer, or political figure.
I am told that several climbing and mountaineering clubs provide communication equipment by contribution from their members.
They appointed a famous mountaineer to investigate and, following the report of the committee headed by him, they suspended the local militia.
Some of the greatest mountaineers have been very competitive indeed.
Climbers, potholers, mountaineers—vast numbers of people are more interested in these sports.
With delay, as any mountaineer knows, come darkness and danger.