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": "user", "content": "I would love to go mountaineering.  A trip to Mount Kailash in Tibet is on my bucket list."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Seems too dangerous to me. Although the term can be related to backpacking, hiking, skiing and any other outdoor climbing."}, {"role": "user", "content": "LOL. No one can climb Mount Kailash. it is a holy mountain.  You circumambulate , or walk around the mountain."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I don't know much about it. Mountaineering started out as trying to reach the very top, but now it has other aspects that people aspire too."}, {"role": "user", "content": "i don't see how some of them do it.  having to breath from an oxygen bottle and losing fingers and toes to frostbite."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It takes a lot of skill and ability plus knowledge of safety to be able to do what they do."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Isn't it expensive to climb the major mountains, like Mount Everest?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I wouldn't think it would cost money to climb mountains. Sometimes it is called Alpinism, more common in European languages, where you climb with little equipment in snow and ice."}]