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n. - Mountain climbing (not restricted to the Alps).

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  • School of Seven Bells '2008 debut, Alpinism, breathed fresh air into the slumbering dream-pop genre.
  • Note 6: Lance van Sittert, Seeing the Cedarberg: Alpinism and Inventions of the Agterberg in the White Urban Middle Class Imagination, c. 1890 – c.
  • He also wrote a book called "Extreme Alpinism," for those who don't find the prospect of scaling scary mountains by hard routes extreme enough in the first place.
  • A mountaineer, he wrote about climbing, compiled an international bibliography of «Alpinism», and served as president of the Club alpin belge.
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