Globe Pequot Press: Complete Guide To Rope Techniques: A Comprehensive Handbook for Climbers
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Description
The Complete Guide to Rope Techniques provides the essential knowledge needed for normal day-to-day climbing, from basic tying-on and belaying methods to more advanced skills needed for competitive climbing. Each technique is presented in a simple and straightforward manner and is broken down into its individual components.
Features
- Author: Nigel Shepherd
- Covers:
- Useful knots and basic techniques
- Top and bottom roping
- Snow, rock, and ice anchors
- Abseiling
- Ascending a fixed rope
- Escaping from the system
- Direct belays and belaying techniques
- Glacier travel and crevasse rescue
- Improvised rescues
- Short roping
- Double-rope technique
- Single pitch climbing
- And much more
Specifications
| Paperback: | 360 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-0762746781 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Date Published: | September 1, 2007 |
| Dimensions: | 4.5 x 0.6 x 6.7 in |
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