Globe Pequot Press: How To Climb Self Rescue
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Description
Whether you need to assist your partner past a difficult section of a climb or rappel down a multipitch route with an injured climber, you owe it to yourself and your fellow climbers to be prepared. Self-Rescue fully describes and illustrates a variety of techniques that every climber needs to know for safety and self-reliance.
Features
- A new approach to self-rescue concepts: terrain, technical ledges, baseline, and belay escapes
- Tools and primary systems
- Knots and hitches
- Anchors and belays
- Patient assessment
- Terrain assessment
- Hands free
- Course of action—descend
- Course of action—ascend
- Course of action—stabilize/shelter in place
- Toprope rescue
- Second rescue
- Leader rescue
- Search and rescue
Specifications
| Paperback: | 256 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-0762755332 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Date Published: | June 1, 2011 |
| Dimensions: | 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 in |
| Weight: | 1 lb |
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