思考登山經驗問題的原點，應該摒除各項身體活動目的論與功能論的表層糖衣，直接深入身體經驗本身。本文採現象學進路，反思及直觀登山活動的身體經驗。發現鮮活生動的登山經驗內容包含：疾動與緩靜間的感官存在、苦痛與喜樂間的感性存在、欲求與需求間的感知存在、他控與主控間的人我存在、實境與幻境間的空間存在、流逝與靜止間的時間存在，及其於存在兩端的游動浮移。在經驗特質上則呈現親身履歷、超常越障、體驗自然、生存體察、孤獨孑然、身練心修六種經驗特質。最後，建議登山者要超脫蒐集山頭的唯一念頭，轉向關注於行程的親歷體驗，同時要迴向觀照未加細察或習焉不察的身體經驗內涵，啟發行走於「登山之道」中之「身心體驗」，在個人生命中的深化力道。

Any adequate account of the significance of mountaineering is to some extent dependent of the immediate body experience of mountaineering, and to remove the vision of teleology and functionalism. Thus, this paper aims to expose the essential features of the lives experience of mountaineering. In taking up phenomenological standpoints, it is exposed that there six major existentially dialectical clues and six essential characteristics in the mountaineering as it is lived through. The six clues consist of the dialectical relationships between speedy motion and slow relaxation on sensual existence, suffering and happiness on passionate existence, needing and wanting on cognitive existence, total other-control and total self-control on interpersonal existence, real world and wonder land on spatiality, and elapsing and standstill on temporality. Finally it is exposed in this paper that the essential characteristics of the mountaineering experience are walking-by-yourself, obstacle-surmounting, nature-experienced, survival-experienced, solitary, and body-and-mind-improving.