The Essential Hillwalker's Guide

Walker, Kevin; Steele, Peter

ISBN 10: 1841194891 / ISBN 13: 9781841194899

Published by Constable, 2002

About this Item

2002 Constable first edition paperback; Very Good ex-library copy; plate and usual stamps, protected in removable plastic sleeve; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.

Seller Inventory # 13919

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Essential Hillwalker's Guide
• Publisher: Constable
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841194891
• ISBN 13: 9781841194899
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First edition. Pbk.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

This guide for walkers and climbers encompasses all the skills and knowledge needed for safe and enjoyable expeditions and offers advise on preparation, footwear, camping equipment, food and details of navigation skills. It also sets out the situations that lend hillwalking its specially challenging status such as benightment, stonefall and getting lost with suggestions on what to do in the event. Included is a full guide to first aid that covers everything from limb injury to mountain hypothermia.

About the Author

Peter Steele, mountaineer, skier and Yukon doctor, followed his ebullient hero around Europe and into the still remote barren lands that he put on the map. Author of the Medical Handbook for Walkers and Climbers, he also wrote Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond, a life of the mountain explorer, which won the 1998 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.