(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.