English

Noun

cragsman ‎(plural cragsmen)

1. A climber of crags or other vertical rocks.
   • 1851, George Borrow, Lavengro:

     Meanwhile I had become a daring cragsman, a character to which an English lad has seldom opportunities of aspiring; for in England there are neither crags nor mountains.

   • 1910, John Buchan, Prester John:

     A boyhood spent on the cliffs at Kirkcaple had made me a bold cragsman, and the porphyry of the Rooirand clearly gave excellent holds.

   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 424:

     A skilled cragsman himself, he told his officers that he believed that a determined party of Gurkhas and other experienced climbers could reach the enemy by this route.