No, stop that. That's bullshit and Will Gadd calls it out:
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Will Gadd and his friends are at an elite level. They would call most mountain climbing done in the continental US, summits like Mt. Baldy, "hiking."
This is a confusing example because Baldy has hiking routes to the summit in the spring/summer/fall, and also a pretty technical mountaineering route used in winter which people (often unprepared for conditions) die trying almost every year. Nobody ought to call the hiking route mountaineering, nor the mountaineering route a hike.