(1) He had a thick, heavy beard, and some pretty old gear, but the thing I remember most is this wooden alpenstock he was carrying.

(2) She was also fit enough, in her own words, u2018to rush up a hill using Uncle W's alpenstock .u2019

(3) As often happens in very remote, sparsely populated places, a man showed up out of nowhere: a Wakhi named Sher Ali, rough as a rock, with his own alpenstock .

(4) After testing her fitness by a demanding walk he decided that she would cope and took her to be equipped with clinkered boots and an alpenstock .

(5) One sees them stumble on, leaning on alpenstocks or throwing their heads back to gulp the last of a skinned borraccia.