Overview
Climbing has become a hot sport thanks to indoor climbing walls in big cities and small towns all across America. But conventional climbing guides have failed to keep pace with the sport's surge in popularity. Rock Climbing is designed to help beginners go beyond their first experiences at a climbing gym and gain the skills they need to get out, rope up, and climb! It explains safe climbing techniques in a logical step by step sequence with special emphasis on transferring techniques acquired indoors to the wider world of actual rock faces. Full color sequential illustrations, stunning color photographs, and the author's field tested teaching approach clarify all the fundamentals, including gear, knots, top roping, leading, anchors, belaying, and rappelling. Whether readers are getting started at the local gym or aspiring to head to the big mountain faces, this guide will give them a rock solid foundation to build on.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780393316537
- ISBN-10: 039331653X
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: January 2003
- Dimensions: 7.62 x 5.48 x 0.58 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.8 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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