Mountain and Navigation Sports

Sports in which the challenge is reaching a place on foot across rough terrain, by climbing or by finding the way. Mountaineering is the ascent of high peaks, and orienteering is a race to visit controls in order using a map and compass. What belongs here is an outdoor endurance sport where route finding or alpine skill is central. Every sport filed in this group belongs to the Multisport and Endurance Sports category and has its own entry in the Sport and Games Atlas, from which a reader can follow links on to its leading athletes, its competitions and the governing bodies that set its rules.