Rock Climbing (A Trailside Guide)

Mellor, Don

ISBN 10: 039331653X / ISBN 13: 9780393316537

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

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Riassunto:

Featuring full-color sequential illustrations, photographs, and a field-tested teaching approach, a guide helps beginners move from indoor to outdoor climbing, teaching them safe climbing techniques in a logical step-by-step sequence. Original.

Product Description: Rock Climbing: A Trailside Guide is designed to encourage beginners to go beyond their first experiences at a climbing gym and gain the skills they need to get out, rope up, and climb! It explains safe climbing techniques in a logical sequence with a special emphasis on transferring techniques acquired indoors to the wider - less predictable - world of actual rock faces. Full-color sequential illustrations, stunning color photographs, and the author's field-tested teaching approach clarify the fundamentals, including gear, knots, top-roping, leading, anchors, belaying, and rappelling. Like all specialized sports, climbing has its own language; once learned, it makes everything easier, but at first it can be a challenge. A chapter explaining rock climbing's roots, its lingo, and its rating systems demystifies these aspects of the sport. A comprehensive glossary allows quick reference. Chapters on moving from the gym to real rock and on various rock types smooth the way.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Rock Climbing (A Trailside Guide)
Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company
Data di pubblicazione: 2003
Legatura: Paperback
Illustratore: Hildebrand, Ron
Condizione: Very Good