Translation of "mountain climbing perhaps " (English → French) :

TERMINOLOGY

climbing rope [ mountain climbing rope | mountaineering rope ]
corde d'escalade [ corde d'alpinisme ]

high-altitude climbing [ high mountain climbing ]
ascension en haute montagne [ escalade haute montagne ]

mountain climbing | climbing
escalade

climbing rope | mountain climbing rope
corde d'alpinisme | corde d'escalade

high-altitude climbing | high mountain climbing
ascension en haute montagne

mountain climbing belt
ceinture d'alpinisme

International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation | World Mountaineering and Climbing Federation | UIAA [Abbr.]
Union internationale des associations d'alpinisme | UIAA [Abbr.]

The International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation
Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme [ UIAA ]

IN-CONTEXT TRANSLATIONS

Like being surrounded by menacing picture postcards standing on end an overwhelmingness of stone a thunder in the vision —ghosts of Incas so absent here and I so aware of them their absence a negative-plus —and next morning the neighbouring mountain Birney once climbed completely mist-obscured and perhaps he is still climbing from his Toronto hospital room and if I yell “Hi Earle” I’ll hear his Andean bellow “Come on up Al” —only one thing to do in a place like thunder and lightning stand and rejoice that you’re alive in the mountains for as long as may be and to have all these things fizz in your head like cheap booze is using up all your quota of inexhaustible delight —that life should bring such gifts and wrap them in clouds and stars Reprinted with permission of the publisher and Eurithe Purdy from To Paris Never Again, Habour Publishing, 1997
Like being surrounded by menacing picture postcards standing on end an overwhelmingness of stone a thunder in the vision —ghosts of Incas so absent here and I so aware of them their absence a negative-plus —and next morning the neighbouring mountain Birney once climbed completely mist-obscured and perhaps he is still climbing from his Toronto hospital room and if I yell “Hi Earle” I’ll hear his Andean bellow “Come on up Al” —only one thing to do in a place like thunder and lightning stand and rejoice that you’re alive in the mountains for as long as may be and to have all these things fizz in your head like cheap booze is using up all your quota of inexhaustible delight —that life should bring such gifts and wrap them in clouds and stars Tiré de To Paris Never Again, Habour Publishing, 1997, et reproduit avec la permission de l’éditeur et d’Eurithe Purdy.

To answer that question, I have had to resort to my passion for mountain climbing: perhaps the most fitting comparison is to say that we have climbed a high mountain – probably, and without any exaggeration, an 8 000-metre peak in the Himalayas.
Pour répondre à cette question, j’ai dû faire appel à ma passion pour l’alpinisme. La comparaison la plus adéquate serait peut-être de dire que nous avons grimpé jusqu’au sommet d’une haute montagne, probablement, et sans exagération aucune, un sommet de 8 000 mètres dans l’Himalaya.