mountaineer

noun4

1. •
   A person who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.

   • These green and sweetly smelling crops They led in waggons home; And they piled them here in mountain tops For mountaineers to roam. — 1885
2. •
   A bird of the genus Oreonympha; also called the bearded mountaineer or eastern mountaineer
3. •
   (no longer used) A person who lives in a mountainous area (often with the connotation that such people are outlaws or uncivilized).

   • This was my master, A very valiant Briton and a good, That here by mountaineers lies slain. — 1611
4. •
   (no longer used) An animal or plant that is native to a mountainous area.

   • This hardy race [of sheep] differ from our other breeds, not only in their dark complection and horns, but principally in the long coarse shagged wool which grows upon these mountaineers. — 1786

verb2

1. •
   To climb mountains; to climb using the techniques of a mountaineer.

   • […] they had returned in safety to Europe, and were now in Switzerland, where they were mountaineering with great vigour. — 1872
2. •
   (figurative) To climb as if on a mountain.

   • […] he sat up and shook his ears once or twice, and then sprang lightly off the window-sill and began to mountaineer about the contents of the garret. — 1940

noun1

1. •
   A person from or resident of West Virginia.