How to Climb: Building Your Own Indoor Climbing Wall (How To Climb Series) (Paperback)

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Product Description

A primer that provides strategy and design guidelines for building an imaginative climbing wall at home.

From the Back Cover

A primer that provides strategy and design guidelines for building an imaginative climbing wall at home. Veteran builder of many indoor walls, Ramsay Thomas shows the details of construction common to all wood-frame indoor walls, including making your own molded movable holds.

Product Details

• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Falcon; 1st edition (January 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0934641730
• ISBN-13: 978-0934641739
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #650,722 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Weak, February 8, 2002

By	"jonjen4" (Murray, UT United States) - See all my reviews

This book hardly even covers the basics in building a wall. Very few diagrams and even fewer innovative ideas. He doesn't even bother to include many picture of walls in order to get ideas. Even the limited information free on the web surpasses the details in this book.

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pathetic, May 21, 2001

By	Adam Holmes (Fort Collins, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This book is an awful intro to building indoor rock walls. Outdated and too thin. It reccommends creating your own holds which is a good way to make poor holds. The Metolious website offers at least as much info as this book and it's free. Unfortunately, there is no other book to reccommend that covers building indoor walls. Someone still needs to write it.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Well, at least I didn't pay for it, June 21, 2006

By	L. M. MACLEAN "If too many books were a crime..." (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This was a free, 4-for-3 book that looked interesting and I thought would be a good way for me to put together a climbing wall for my foster children that wasn't a plastic one you get at the toy stores. Children get bored on those little tiny walls with plastic holds; I am experienced in woodworking and masonry and wanted to put something up in my basement or garage (which the book specifically promises to be geared to). I don't have a 25-foot ceiling like he does and there seems to be no way to scale down the walls (no pun intended). The entire first page basically says, "Don't build your own wall without an architect or a structural engineer." Thanks.