Meaning & use
Summiting
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The act of climbing to and reaching the top, or summit, of a mountain.
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The climbers celebrated after summiting the peak just before noon.
Summiting Everest without supplemental oxygen remains a rare achievement.
A note on using this word
"Summiting" is a fairly recent verbing of the noun "summit," now standard in mountaineering vocabulary though still considered informal by some style guides.
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