There quite a few climbing related words in English that come from German, according to this list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_expressions_in

There quite a few climbing related words in English that come from German, according to this list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_expressions_in_English https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_expressions_i... There are also a lot of „expedition“ related words (e.g. Rucksack) that made their way to Japanese. IIRC the Germans did a lot of expeditions/Mountaineering in the Himalaya, etc. and I assume that this is how these words transferred to English/Japanese.