Mountaineering is a type of climbing and can include a variety of terrains such as rock, snow, ice, and dirt among other terrains, to reach a summit (the mountain top). Mountaineering climbs range from short day trips to multi-day or multi-week trips and sometimes as...
I am not a mountain climber by any stretch of the imagination. I enjoy the outdoors, and could be considered an “outdoorsy type” but I live in Bolivia, in La Paz specifically, the heart of the Andean mountain region. So despite not being the mountain climbing type,...