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Hill-climbing traveller? (5)

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nomad

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'traveller?' is the definition.
(nomad is a kind of traveller)

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(Other definitions for nomad that I've seen before include "Itinerant" , "one must move on" , "drifter" , "Wanderer" , "Member of a wandering pastoral community" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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