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MOUNTAINEERS BOOKS 9780898867725 Climbing Self-Rescue
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Product Description
* Climbing self-rescue procedures for teams of two -- the most common climbing party size
* Techniques equally effective on rock, snow, and ice
* Utilizes gear climbers already carry in their rack
* Includes 40 one-page rescue scenarios and solutions for climbing accident analysis
The rope is stuck, or too short. A crucial piece of gear is MIA. You've wandered off route into dicey terrain. An injury leaves you or your partner in need of help. Climb long enough and finding yourself in a jam far from help is inevitable. In Climbing: Self Rescue, two long-time climbing instructors and guides teach how to improvise your own solutions, calling for outside help only when necessary.
Because few climbers carry fancy (and expensive) search and rescue gear, all skills taught in this book use the items typically found on a climbing rack: rope, carabiners, slings, and cord. Text, illustrations, and photos explain knots, belaying and hauling systems, rappelling, ascension, passing knots, how to safely assist and rig an injured climber, and more. Roughly half of the book is devoted to real-life climbing scenarios and solutions ranging from moderate to severe. Because real-life situations rarely unfold as they do in practice, Climbing Self-Rescue teaches how to analyze and improvise your way out of a crisis.
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Customer Reviews
By Pablo
Date: September 24, 2017
excellent book. Covers many potential emergencyscenerios and offers good practical ways to rescue yourself. It is well written and easy to read
Rating: 
[5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]
By A Customer
Date: September 04, 2017
This review is for the Kindle version. Nome of the captions line up for the images, so you have to do a lot of page flipping, and some of the pictures can't be zoomed in. You post something coming from the print layout of the book. The content itself was good, I thought the pictures could have been a lot clearer.
Rating: 
[2 of 5 Stars!]
[2 of 5 Stars!]
By R. Long
Date: February 02, 2017
excellent book , great read-- very helpful in knowing what to do if the need arises !!!
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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