The mountaineering is a sport that involves ascension in high mountains; also called as mountaineering and mountaineering, mountaineering is then a sports practice in which techniques, knowledge and skills are agreed, all of them oriented to the ultimate goal, which is to reach the highest point of the mountain in question.
Sport that consists of ascending and descending to the high mountains
Mountaineering is the oldest and most complete mountain sport within the enormous variety that exists today.
We cannot ignore that in this practice of climbing the highest mountains in the world, in addition to a sporting interest, there exists in those who practice it an objective of personal improvement that already exceeds sport.
Only for brave and adventurous spirits
The mountaineer, as the mountaineer is called, wants to reach the top of the mountain to show his strength, because we agree that climbing a high mountain is not an ordinary and common question.
The person who does it is special, they have a unique personality and courage that drives them to do something different and better in their life.
Obviously, a lot of physical work and practice must be added to the desire to achieve it.
With the desire and the momentum it will not reach of course.
Origins and evolution
The activity of climbing mountains is certainly old and in the beginnings of humanity it has had survival needs, while as a sport we must go back not too far back in time, towards the end of the 18th century.
It was precisely at this time that a group of English people who only had the concern to climb a mountain did so and of course went down in history for it, being the first to reach the top of Mont Blanc for the first time. Remember that this is the highest mountain in the Alps.
Over time, the practice of mountaineering evolved and became more and more specialized, requiring the mountaineer to know special techniques, elements and practices such as knowing how to ski and climb on all types of terrain, in addition to the corresponding knowledge about orientation.
Specialties
Within mountaineering, twelve specialties coexist: mid-mountain, high-mountain, hiking, expeditions, sport climbing, classic climbing (rock or ice), cross-country skiing, canyoning, mountain half marathon, mountain marathon and mountain duathlon. Meanwhile, each of the aforementioned specialties has its own sports techniques, training, with regard to materials and sports medicine, although they all agree on something, except sports climbing, and that is that the game scenario is nature itself, with its characteristics and environmental peculiarities, a situation that will of course vary depending on the time of year in which the sport is practiced.
The constant variations that it presents make mountaineering a practice that must mainly be organized in detail when "going out on the pitch", because otherwise it will be very difficult to prosper.
Those who practice sport consider it more than just a sport, but rather understand it as a lifestyle that is adopted and that allows them to see the world around them from another point of view.
Preparation and equipment
A separate paragraph deserves the equipment that the mountaineer must carry to develop his journey and that consists of adequate clothing, tools and supplies to be able to survive the days when he is climbing the mountain.
The weight that is carried must be the corresponding one so as not to tire the climber and obviously all the elements made of resistant and portable materials.
The name of mountaineering arose from the place in which the mountain sport began to be practiced in modernity: the mountain range of the Alps, more precisely in the Mont Blanc Massif And although it is used to refer to the ascent of the mountains of the Alps, its use is also recurrent to designate the practice that is carried out in other parts of the world that are not precisely the Alps.
