I would love to go mountaineering.  A trip to Mount Kailash in Tibet is on my bucket list.
Seems too dangerous to me. Although the term can be related to backpacking, hiking, skiing and any other outdoor climbing.
LOL. No one can climb Mount Kailash. it is a holy mountain.  You circumambulate , or walk around the mountain.
I don't know much about it. Mountaineering started out as trying to reach the very top, but now it has other aspects that people aspire too.
i don't see how some of them do it.  having to breath from an oxygen bottle and losing fingers and toes to frostbite.
ability, and technical knowledge to maintain safety. It is still common to venture out and seek the summits of peaks, whether unclimbed or not; this practice is known as peak bagging.
Mountaineering is often called alpinism, and mountain climbers are sometimes called alpinists, although use of the term may vary between countries and eras. The word "alpinism" was born in the 19th century to refer to climbing for the purpose of enjoying climbing itself as a sport or recreation, distinct from merely climbing while hunting or as a
m) demands greater technical climbing skills than Everest (8,848 m), while altitude-related factors such as the thinness of the atmosphere, high winds and low temperatures remain much the same.
In Africa, the summit of Mount Kenya (5,199 m) is a rock climb, while Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 m) can be ascended without any technical difficulty.
In North America, some sources consider Mount Logan a more difficult climb than Denali, although the climbing and outdoor recreation website Summitpost considers Logan no more difficult