Description

Learn approximately 35 new techniques, safety considerations and subjects when you crack open the second edition of Rock Climbing: Mastering Basic Skills, a National Outdoor Book Award winner.

Features

• New edition brings the content up to current standards and includes technological advances, while preserving the first edition's comprehensive approach
• New writing and photography simplify the complex world of modern climbing technique and reveal thought processes behind safe and practical climbing methods
• Includes European climbing techniques that offer alternatives to those traditionally taught in North America
• Incorporates new lessons derived from accidents due, in part, to the increased popularity of climbing
• Updated edition features 10,000 more words, 125 more photos and 3 never-before-published techniques (adjustable hitch, high friction tubes and bight method)
• Detailed technical updates offer a distinction between "anchor" and "placement" or "piece"