alpinism

From alpine +‎ -ism.

• IPA^(key): /ˈælpɪnɪzəm/

alpinism (usually uncountable, plural alpinisms)

1. (sometimes capitalized) Mountain climbing.

   Synonyms: mountaineering, mountain climbing

   • 1912, “New Maps,”, in Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, volume 44, number 7, page 558:

     . . . our rapidly increasing knowledge of the Rocky Mountains of Canada for which geography is so greatly indebted to alpinism.

• alpinist

• mountaineering on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Palin-ism, Palinism

Borrowed from French alpinisme.

alpinism n (uncountable)

1. mountaineering