Sports category. Athletes bare hands or use specialized equipment to climb various peaks or mountain terrain. Pyramid can be divided into * the military-style mountain climbing, Alpine climbing and technical climbing several species such as. Mountaineering began in the eighties the eighteenth century. 1786年8月8 said the French doctors Baerma mason  Bakaluo together with the first climbers on the peak of the Alps, Mont Blanc (4,807 meters above sea level), the following year, young scientists from Germany. Saussure who led 19 climbers on Mont Blanc again, since the world's mountaineering Yansheng. So first of all sports from the Alps to start, it is also known as "Alpine sports."
From 1786 to 1865, the elevation of the Alps 3,000 - 4, 000 meters above the peak, have been boarded for the mountain climber, the international climbers, said this period of history as "the golden age of the Alps."
The nineteenth century, after the eighties, the use of various tools and techniques to climb the mountain said the gradual promotion of technology, its area of low mountain from the Alps towards the high Himalayan mountains. 1964 As in 1950, the world's 14 peaks above 8,000 meters, including Mount Everest, including the world's highest peak, one after another for China, Britain and the United States, Italy, said more than 10 countries such as the mountain climber to conquer the international mountaineering history that this period "the golden age of the Himalayas." After 1964, many climbers "Forbidden Zone" was a breakthrough in the beginning no one has used to enter the difficult and dangerous route to climb the 7,000 - 8, 000 meters above the peak of the new era. And in 1978 appeared in the Himalayan high mountain peaks without oxygen on the Alpine-style mountaineering.
The campaign began in China five decades on behalf of the twentieth century. Appeared in 1955 the first mountain climber, in 1956 the establishment of the first team. In 1960 and twice in 1975 from the northeast mountain ridge on Mount Everest, and in 1975 a special metal standard mapping spy erected at the top of Mount Qomolangma, accurate measurement of the peak height of m 8,848,13. For the first time in the history of international climbers of the world the exact measurement of the peak height. Finally in 1964 a board has never been deserted for more than 8000 meters of Shishapangma activities in a number of mountain climbing, mountain climber and work closely with scientists to carry out a variety of mountain exploration activities.