This study is concerned with how the flow state is experienced by climbers during mountaineering. A new inventory was developed. Items were based on Flow State Scale created by Jackson et al. (1996) to measure flow in sports and physical activity settings, and qualitative analysis of interviews with climbers. A sample group of climbers (N=134) reported the best feelings they experienced while mountaineering. Factor analysis was conducted on these responses to the questionnaire, and produced ten factors. These ten were labeled as follows: “Clear Goals and Sense of ability”, “Merging into Nature”, “Companion”, “Action-Awareness Merging”, “Self-Awareness”, “Transformation of Time”, “Sense of Achievement”, “Revival”, “Concentration on task” and “Autotelic Experience”. The reliability of these factors were tested by the coefficient a and credible results were obtained. Analyses of variance revealed that some factors were significantly related to their sexuality and experiences of mountaineering. Suggestions for use of this inventory and further research were discussed.
