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50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE RENOWNED BIBLE OF CLIMBING AND MOUNTAINEERING.

With more than 600,000 copies sold, Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills is the acclaimed bible for climbers all over the world, and the new edition marks the 50th anniversary of this seminal title.

Since the publication of the first edition in 1960, Freedom, as the book is known, has endured as a classic mountaineering text. From choosing equipment to tying a climbing knot, and from basic rappelling techniques to planning an expedition, it is all here in this essential mountaineering reference. A team of more than forty experts, all active climbers and climbing educators, reviewed, revised, and updated this compendium to reflect the latest evolutions in mountaineering equipment and techniques. Major updates include a significant new chapter on conditioning, plus detailed and extensive revisions to rescue and first-response, aid climbing, and waterfall and ice climbing.

Features

• A valuable guide to many of the world's top climbers including Mark Twight, Ed Viesturs, and Conrad Anker, this book is the climber's bible with more than half a million copies sold
• Provides a wealth of climbing information from climbing knots, equipment choice, rappelling technique, and expedition planning
• Contains in-depth revisions of the sessions on rescue, first response, aid climbing, waterfall, and ice climbing
• Complete with a chapter on conditioning never before seen in previous editions