A comprehensive guide to anchoring systems for rock climbers.
"Explains how to create safe, simple, and efficient rock climbing anchoring systems. This pocketsize handbook shows how to properly place and configure natural anchors, passive chocks, mechanical chocks, fixed gear, knots, belay anchors, toprope anchors, and rappel anchors"--
"Explains how to create safe, simple, and efficient rock climbing anchoring systems. This pocketsize handbook shows how to properly place and configure natural anchors, passive chocks, mechanical chocks, fixed gear, knots, belay anchors, toprope anchors, and rappel anchors"...
With more than 100 full-color photos and detailed captions showing how to create safe and simple rock-climbing anchoring systems, this is a take-to-the-crag companion book to our huge-selling Climbing Anchors. Designed for quick use by climbers on site, this book shows how to pr…
"Explains how to create safe, simple, and efficient rock climbing anchoring systems. This pocketsize handbook shows how to properly place and configure natural anchors, passive chocks, mechanical chocks, fixed gear, knots, belay anchors, toprope anchors, and rappel anchors"--
"How to Rock Climb!, now in its fifth edition, is the world's top instructional book on climbing. All the fundamentals from ethics to getting up the rock are presented in John Long's classic style. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the modern standards of equipment, tech…
How to Rock Climb!, now in its fifth edition, is the most thorough instructional rock climbing book in the world. All the fundamentalsfrom ethics to getting up the rockare presented in John Long's classic style. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the modern standards of e…
Contains over four hundred color photographs and detailed instructions to the sport of rock climbing.
Presents an account of the author's two unforgettable "summers" on the southern continent. This is the story of his three-month long fossil hunt. It presents the highs of scientific discovery as well as the routines that must be practiced every day just to stay alive in one of t…