摘要：The psychology of personality in sport is very interesting concerning the specific psychological profile of elite athletes. In the world, numerous investigations on this subject have been carried out. Our research work was focused on the personalities of mountain climbers. Mountain climbing is a very specific sport discipline. Although it is difficult to talk about classical competition in mountain climbing, it is becoming more and more an issue of sport. New possibilities of competition are also appearing. However, mountain climbing still remains a different discipline. One of its most distinctive characteristics is stress: if one makes a mistake, one’s life can even be at stake. Within the framework of our investigation, we studied the personal traits of Slovenian female and male mountain climbers. The results showed that, in comparison with their male colleagues, the Slovenian female mountain climbers had more endurance, were indisposed, disturbed, had more difficulties with the establishment of social contacts, had low tolerance for frustration, they had general psychosomatic disturbances, low self-confidence, they were more self-critical and had stronger feelings of loneliness and inferiority.
