The well known Engineer R. C. Bates, who as a U.S. revenue inspector of mines and an explorer and mountain climber, did much pioneer work about Mt.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
It was like asking a mountain climber if he had ever felt a taut rope over the razor edge of a precipice suddenly go slack.
"Eight Keys to Eden"
Mark Irvin Clifton
She learned the springy gait of the true hill climber, and drank in health and strength from the keen hill air.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit