Alun Richardson

Rucksack Guide - Rock Climbing (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rucksack Guide - Rock Climbing is your essential handbook when climbing.

It offers concise guidance and support for any situation you might find yourself in, including:
- Technical skills: tips and reminders on the key climbing techniques
- Rope work: what knots to use in certain situations and how to tie them
- Types: aid climbing, free climbing, big walling and ice climbing
- Safety: essential procedures to ensure the safety of yourself, your party and others on the rock face
- Emergencies: guidance on what to do in extreme situations

The book is colour-coded for easy reference and all information is presented in lists and tables, making it simple to understand in testing conditions.

The Rucksack Guide series is taken from Mountaineering: The essential skills for mountain walkers and climbers, the definitive handbook for hill walkers, climbers and mountaineers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408125984
• Artikelnr.: 42215814

Autorenporträt

Alun Richardson is an International Mountain Guide, the highest qualification for worldwide climbing, mountaineering and exploration. He is an experienced guide and tutor and regularly teaches at the National Mountaineering Centres, and internationally. He is also secretary of the British Mountain Guides Association.