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Thousands of rock climbers have learned the sport using Craig Luebben’s seminal and bestselling text, Rock Climbing: Mastering Basic Skills. Now Craig’s friend and fellow climber Topher Donahue brings the content up to current standards and includes technological advances, while preserving Craig’s comprehensive approach. An award-winning climber in his own right, Topher uses his writing and photography skills to simplify the complex world of modern climbing technique and reveals the thought process behind safe and practical climbing methods.
This second edition includes European climbing techniques that offer alternatives to those traditionally taught in North America. Topher has also incorporated new lessons derived from accidents due, in part, to the increased popularity of climbing. Also found in this edition:
• Over 10,000 more words and 125 more photos
• Three never-before-published techniques: Adjustable Hitch, High Friction Tubes, and Bight Method
• Detailed technical updates throughout
• New distinction between “anchor” (a group of placements, pieces, or bolts used at the end of a pitch or for top rope or rappel setup) and “placement” or “piece” (individual cams, nuts, etc., used in groups to make an anchor or used individually as protection on a pitch)
From the Publisher
Reconnect with your inner child
One of the most beguiling aspects of climbing is that it is one of the more natural of the outdoor sports. Most people start climbing shortly before they learn to walk— they crawl or climb up stairs, chairs, hillside lawns—and continue climbing as children up trees and rocks. But then they grow up and forget how much fun they had climbing. Reconnecting with your inner child is one of the great benefits of learning to rock climb.
Most other outdoor sports require a painful or difficult learning curve. Climbing has a learning curve as well, and a potentially risky one, but have you truly had a skiing, kayaking, or surfing experience after one day of skiing, kayaking, or surfing? Hardly. Yet after one day of climbing, most people have had a complete climbing experience of accomplishment, doubt, challenge, friendship, and improvement. And thanks to the improvements in technology and information sharing in climbing over recent years, the sport is also the safest and most fun it’s ever been.
Publisher : Mountaineers Books; 2nd edition (September 22, 2014)
Language : English
Paperback : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 1594858624
ISBN-13 : 978-1594858628
Item Weight : 1.35 pounds
Dimensions : 7 x 1.1 x 8.5 inches
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