| CLIMBER | See to be supple as a mountaineer (7) |
| AGILE | Supple as a cropped jacket (5) |
| PLIABLE | First of players apt to be supple (7) |
| LITHEST | Extremely supple, as those adding to roll do the splits (7) |
| CLASSIC | Having the quality, I see, to be enduringly great (7) |
| RICHARD | He's right, I see, to be tough (7) |
| ELASTIC | Elizabeth the First is last, I see, to be flexible (7) |
| NOTICES | Sees to be alternatives to frozen desserts? (7) |
| ICEPICK | A prong similar to a bradawl for sculpting a frozen block or breaking it into cubes for cocktails/drinks; or, a mountaineer's piolet-like tool (3,4) |
| HILLARY | Mountainous around a mountaineer ultimately -like him? (7) |
| UNROPED | Like a mountaineer engaged in free solo climbing (7) |
| ICECAVE | Shelter for a mountaineer, perhaps (7) |
| OFFPEAK | Where a mountaineer's often found time to travel? (3-4) |
| STEPHEN | Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell's father; a mountaineer and first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography (7) |
| ONTHEUP | Becoming more successful, like a mountaineer in action? (2,3,2) |
| DESCENT | Second half of a mountaineer's trip |
| DESCEND | Make the second half of a mountaineer's journey |
| HIGHPITCHED | Squeaky as a mountaineer's tent might be? |
| ONTOPOFTHEWORLD | Really happy, as a mountaineer? |
| RAPPEL | Descend via rope as a mountaineer |
