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With more than 100 photos and detailed captions showing how to create safe and simple rock-climbing anchoring systems, this take-along guide is a useful volume for climbers.
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Good, solid anchors are essential for safe rock climbing. If you understand the principles behind anchor construction and the fundamentals of good anchors but want to have the details conveniently available once you’re at the cliff, this handbook is perfect for you. Specifically geared for on-site use, Climbing Anchors Field Guide is an easy-to-follow visual reference packed with essential reminders on how to place reliable protection and construct secure anchors in a variety of real-world climbing situations.
Inside you’ll find:
? Natural anchors
? Passive chocks
? Spring-loaded
camming devices
? Bolts
? Fall forces
? Judging the
direction of pull
? Knots for anchoring
? Belay anchors
? Toprope anchors
? Rappel anchors
|Good, solid anchors are essential for safe rock climbing. If you understand the principles behind anchor construction and the fundamentals of good anchors but want to have the details conveniently available once you’re at the cliff, this handbook is perfect for you. Specifically geared for on-site use,Climbing Anchors Field Guide is an easy-to-follow visual reference packed with essential reminders on how to place reliable protection and construct secure anchors in a variety of real-world climbing situations.
Inside you’ll find:
· Natural anchors
· Passive chocks
· Spring-loaded
camming devices
· Bolts
· Fall forces
· Judging the
direction of pull
· Knots for anchoring
· Belay anchors
· Toprope anchors
· Rappel anchors
About the Author
John Long is a legendary rock climber, world adventurer, and top-selling author in the outdoor industry (more than a million copies in print). His feats include the first one-day ascent of El Capitan and a coast-to-coast traverse of Borneo. He has written numerous books, including the best-selling How to Rock Climb!, the world's foremost book of climbing instruction, now in its fourth edition, and he has coauthored Climbing Anchors, Advanced Rock Climbing, and Big Walls. He resides in Venezuela and in Venice, California. Bob Gaines is an American Mountain Guides Association Certified Rock Climbing Guide and the owner/director of an AMGA-accredited rock climbing school based at Joshua Tree National Park, California. He lives in Irvine, California.
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- PublisherFalcon Guides
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0762745045
- ISBN 13 9780762745043
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages128
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