i love adventures like mountain climbing.
[{"role": "system", "content": "The term mountaineering describes the sport of mountain climbing. While some scholars identify mountaineering-related activities as climbing (rock and ice) and trekking up mountains, others are also adding backpacking, hiking, skiing, via ferrata and wilderness activities, and still others state that mountaineering activities also include indoor climbing, sport climbing and bouldering. However most of the scholars, the term mountaineering understand as a climbing (which now refers to adventure climbing or sports climbing) and trekking (hill walking in 'exotic' places). Hiking in the mountains can also be a simple form of mountaineering when it involves scrambling, or short stretches of the more basic grades of rock climbing, as well as crossing glaciers. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed big mountains it has branched into specializations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists of three (3) areas: rock-craft, snow-craft, and skiing, depending on whether the route chosen is over rock, snow or ice. All require experience, athletic ability, and technical knowledge to maintain safety. Mountaineering is often called Alpinism, especially in European languages, which implies climbing routes with minimal equipment in high and often snow and ice-covered mountains such as the Alps, where technical difficulties frequently exceed environmental and physical challenges.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I love sports and the one that I recently got into is mountaineering - which involves intense climbing!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have never done that but am interested and would like to know more about it"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, intense mountaineering involves scaling the faces of mountains, but novices can get into the sport by simply hiking...if it involves scrambling over basic grades of rocks, of course."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh that is a lot more intense than backpacking! Is there special equipment needed?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It really depends on where you are mountaineering at. For example, if it's a snow laden area, you would want skis, or other such gear that makes it easier to traverse through the snow."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I know rock climbing is popular is mountaineering very popular?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's very popular amongst those who love traveling to exotic places. I would say it is much easier to get into rock climbing than it is to get into mountaineering."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Is it the same thing as Alpining?"}]