an adventurer who has scaled alps, explored ocean depths, and flown into the stratosphere
Recent Examples on the WebThe ski-in, ski-out pad, which Compass just put on the market for $100 million, is one of just five single-family homes on the soaring, 11,000-foot alp. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 1 July 2022 Its terrain is forbidding—more like an alp than like a Tuscan hillside. Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021 Her quads burned from yet another ascent up a Swiss alp. Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 July 2021 Instead he was spotted in the Swiss alps, drinking beer on the ski slopes with friends after partying into the early hours the night before at a club in the posh ski resort town of Verbier, the Daily Mail reported. Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2017
Word History
Etymology
back-formation from Alps, mountain system of Europe