The new edition of this popular handbook has been updated to reflect advances in climbing equipment, technique, and safety. It is packed with clear, concise instruction on mountain hazards, climbing movement, equipment, safety systems, leading, descending, glacier travel, and rescue, with a separate chapter on style and ethics. Easy-to-read line drawings illustrate key points, including equipment use, roping, and mountaineering knots.
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The National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) is a private, nonprofit school based in Lander, Wyoming. With 14 main operating locations around the world, NOLS has graduated more than 100,000 students since its founding in 1965. From Idaho, Washington, Arizona, Alaska, Wyoming, the Yukon, Baffin Island, India, the Amazon, Mexico, Patagonia, Australia, and New Zealand, NOLS is the leading source and teacher of wilderness skills and leadership that serve people and the environment.
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Course Book,
This review is from: NOLS Wilderness Mountaineering (NOLS Library) (Paperback)
This was bascially my course book on a NOLS mountaineering course I took. The basic skills needed for mountaineering we learned can be found in this book. It's great to have it around your house to look through just to keep your skills fresh in your mind when you're not mountaineering. If you are going into mountaineering don't think that just by reading this book you'll be ready. Take a NOLS course. NOLS always produces high quality stuff.
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This review is from: NOLS Wilderness Mountaineering: 2nd Edition (NOLS Library) (Paperback)
As a NOLS Grad this book is great to help you stay fresh and even if you aren't it is a great way to learn the right way to do things.
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The great explorer Eric Shipton wrote that "mountain climbing has its roots in mountain explorations." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
improved prusik hitch, locking girth hitch, waist prusik, locking biner, foot prusik, fallen climber, first rappeller, mule knot, friction hitch, accessory cord, falling climber, hip belay, protection placements, intermediate anchors, running belay, crevasse fall, brake hand, belay device, firn line, rope system, intermediate protection, friction device, glacier travel, belay anchors, locking carabiner Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The great explorer Eric Shipton wrote that "mountain climbing has its roots in mountain explorations." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
improved prusik hitch, locking girth hitch, waist prusik, locking biner, foot prusik, fallen climber, first rappeller, mule knot, friction hitch, accessory cord, falling climber, hip belay, protection placements, intermediate anchors, running belay, crevasse fall, brake hand, belay device, firn line, rope system, intermediate protection, friction device, glacier travel, belay anchors, locking carabiner Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wild Country Rock, Wild Country Friend, Blue Water, North America New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Accidents in North American Mountaineering: Volume 8 - Number 5 - Issue 58 by Jed Williamson on page 41, page 148, and Back Matter
- Rising From The Plains by John McPhee on page 11, and Back Matter
- Climbing Ice by Yvon Chouinard on page 70, and Back Matter
- Mont Blanc Massif by Gaston Rebuffat in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The American Alpine Journal, 2005: The World's Most Significant Climbs, Vol. 47, Issue 79 by John Harlin III in Back Matter
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