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 am interesting in Mountaineering, but not sure the specifics about it. Can you tell me some things about it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Sure, many people think of it as only mountain climbing, but it includes backpacking and hiking as well."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh, ok, I see. I think that would be fun to do, and finish it up with camping by a river or lake."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Many participants do that, or they do short climbs called scrambles. Some even climb Glaciers."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow, a glacier would be amazing! Are there any really popular places for it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "A good deal of people climb in the Alpines or in North America it is popular in the Rocky Mountains."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I can see those being some excellent places to go mountaineering. I would think it would be better to go with others and not alone, more safe?'"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes it is and if you can't find a partner you can always go indoor climbing at a facility."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That would be the best bet for beginners I would think. Start of and learn some helpful tips."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, indoors they will attach you to a belay harness for safety reasons."}]