Arête: Sharp mountain ridge.
Astride: To have one leg on each side of a dividing
obfect, such as a fence, or in the case the ridge.
Astride: with the legs stretched wide apart
Balsam fire: A fire made from balsam trees, which
are firs that can be found in mountainous regions.
Baulked: To refuse obstinately or abruptly.
Beckoning: To signal or summon to something or someone.
Bergschrund: The crevasse or series of crevasses,
usually deep and often broad, frequently occurring
near the head of a mountain glacier.
Bighorns: The Bighorn Mountains are a smaller mountain
range that lie along the Rockies.
Bleakly: Gloomily and somberly.
Buoying: To be floating.
Cairn: a generally small stone structure used to
indicate a trail, etc.
Cambrian: The first period of the Paleozoic era,
590- million to 505million years ago.
Cankered: To be infected with decay and corrosion.
Chimney: A sort of narrow vertical opening in a cliff.
It’s possible to push on both sides and progressively
move up a cliff.
Col: Another word for a mountain pass (a route that
allows for easier access through a mountain range).
Coltish: Of, relating to, or resembling a colt, powerful
Crevasses: A deep crack or opening
Curling: A game in which two teams of four players
each slide curling stones over a stretch of ice toward
a target circle, a Canadian sport.
Devilled: Annoyed, tormented or harassed.
Dint: To impress or drive in forcibly.
Faceted: A smooth flat circumscribed anatomical surface
(as of a bone).
Fern: Any of a large class of flowerless spore-producing
vascular plants.
Festooned: Decorate, adorn.
Fetid: Having a heavy offensive smell.
Firs: A type of tree, usually a group of evergreen
trees.
Gaping: To open wide.
Gentian: Any of numerous herbs with opposite smooth
leaves and blue flowers.
Gyrating: Revolving weakly around in a circle.
Heather: A heath is an area of land covered with low
shrubs.
Incurious: Uninterested, lacking curiosity.
Inlet: A narrow water passage between peninsulas or
through a barrier island leading to a bay or lagoon.
Juniper: Any of numerous shrubs or trees of the cypress
family with leaves resembling needles or scales and
female cones usually resembling berries.
Larch: A type of deciduous tree.
Lingered: sticking around, slow before leaving.
Marten: Any of several principally arboreal carnivorous
mammals of the genus Martes, related to the weasel,
mainly inhabiting northern forests, and having a slender
body, bushy tail, and soft fur.
Maw: An opening into something.
Mire: An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground.
Moraine: A large hill formed through rock and soil
deposits from glaciers.
Névé: The upper part of a glacier where the snow
turns into ice.
obscene: strange, weird
Pika: A small mammal related to the rabbit and the
hare.
Pines: A northern tree.
Splayed: Spread outward.
Poplar: Any trees of the willow family.
Prong: A slender pointed or projecting part.
Pursued: To proceed with, to follow through with.
Ragged: Not proper, messy, scruffy.
Rainsquall: A downpour of rain usually involved with
wind.
Ramparts: A fortification of some sort.
Ranges: A series of mountains.
Reek: To smoke, steam, or fume.
Rockies: The Rocky Mountains are an extensive mountain
range along western North America.
Ruck: An indistinguishable gathering.
Saxifrage: Any of a kind of chiefly perennial herbs
Scarp: To cut or make into an escarpment.
Serac: A large pointed mass of ice in a glacier isolated
by intersecting crevasses
Shale: A fissile rock that is formed by the consolidation
of clay, mud, or silt, has a finely stratified or
laminated structure, and is composed of minerals essentially
unaltered since deposition.
Skree: A sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of
a cliff.
Slate: Type of rock, comes in layers, grey, green
or bluish purple metamorphic rock.
Slogged: To slog is to walk heavily or in a tired
manner.
Spectral: Looking ghostly.
Spire: A spiral.
Sprawling: To spread or develop irregularly.
Strata: One of a number of layers, levels, or divisions
in an organized system.
Sundance: A particular place on the mountain.
Surly poker: Irritably sullen and churlish in mood
or manner.
Survey: A mountain chain.
Swell: A long often massive and crestless wave or
succession of waves often continuing beyond or after
its cause.
The Finger: A mountain in the Rocky Mountains.
The Fortress: This refers to a high area of the mountain
that is challenging to climb up.
The Spray: A body of water in the area.
Trilobite: Any of numerous extinct Paleozoic marine
arthropods
Unfurling: To open out from or as if from a furled
state.
Upbraided: To find fault with.
Wages: Reward, usually used in plural but sing.
Whirring: To move so as to produce a vibrating or
buzzing sound.
Wrangling: To dispute angrily or peevishly.
