| BIVOUAC | What is a temporary encampment for soldiers or mountaineers? (7) |
| BIVOUACS | Makeshift camping places without tents or cover used by soldiers or mountaineers (8) |
| CLIMBER | A boulderer or mountaineer; a plant such as a vine; or, a person intent upon social advancement (7) |
| ANTHILLS | High-rise dwellings for soldiers or workers? (8) |
| BARRACKS | Places for soldiers or glasses? (8) |
| VALLEYFORGE | Pennsylvania encampment for 61 Across and his troops |
| MERC | Mariner or Mountaineer, informally |
| SHERPAS | Healthy places for housing the female mountaineers? (7) |
| ESCORTS | People, soldiers or vehicles accompanying others for protection, guidance, restraint, or as a mark of honour (7) |
| TOEHOLD | Do hotel breaks: useful base for mountaineer? |
| CANTEEN | Water bottle or canister used by soldiers or campers (7) |
| LEGPULL | Joke that proved dangerous to the mountaineer? (3-4) |
| BUNKERS | They might contain soldiers, or golfers (7) |
| TRAITOR | Characteristic shown by soldiers - or disloyal type (7) |
| LANCERS | Light cavalry soldiers, or 19th-century dance (7) |
| BANTAMS | Miniature but feisty fowls, hence small soldiers or featherlight boxers (7) |
| BIVVY | Short word for what was originally a night-watch under arms, now a mountaineer, Scout or soldier's temporary encampment without tents; or, a makeshift shelter (5) |
| COLUMNS | Soldiers or leaders, perhaps (7) |
| EPIDEMIC | What is a temporary prevalence of a disease (8) |
| FLASHINTHEPAN | Sounds like something chef would do for steak in what is a temporary success (5,2,3,3) |
