ascensionist

The person who performs the first ascent is called the first ascensionist.

This act was perpetrated by the first ascensionist Nigel Slater.

Second ascensionist Steve Reid reports the crag to be of good, rough rock, although further cleaning would make the climbs more enjoyable.

As of September 2003, data from Chinese National Geography, August 2006, page 77 (the column "first ascensionist(s) in winter" has different sources).

In that same year, he appeared in an uncredited role as a Balloon Ascensionist in The Wizard of Oz.

One potential second ascensionist who shall remain nameless (clue: he lives in Wallyford) tried to seat the gear on the crux so violently that he took an 80' near groundfall when six runners ripped!!

Melchior Anderegg (28 March 1828-8 December 1914), from Zaun, Meiringen, was a Swiss mountain guide and the first ascensionist of many prominent mountains in the western Alps during the golden and silver ages of alpinism.

The most famous early ascensionist was the Reverend George Kinney, a founding member of the Alpine Club, who on his twelfth attempt in August 1909 is presumed to have reached the high summit ridge with local outfitter Curly Phillips before being turned back.