Rucksack Guide - Rock Climbing

Rucksack Guide - Rock Climbing is your essential handbook when climbing.
It offers concise guidance and support for any situation you might find yourself in, including:
- Technical skills: tips and reminders on the key climbing techniques
- Rope work: what knots to use in certain situations and how to tie them
- Types: aid climbing, free climbing, big walling and ice climbing
- Safety: essential procedures to ensure the safety of yourself, your party and others on the rock face
- Emergencies: guidance on what to do in extreme situations
The book is colour-coded for easy reference and all information is presented in lists and tables, making it simple to understand in testing conditions.
The Rucksack Guide series is taken from Mountaineering: The essential skills for mountain walkers and climbers, the definitive handbook for hill walkers, climbers and mountaineers.

Alun Richardson is an International Mountain Guide, the highest qualification for worldwide climbing, mountaineering and exploration. He is an experienced guide and tutor and regularly teaches at the National Mountaineering Centres, and internationally. He is also secretary of the British Mountain Guides Association.

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Introduction
Falling
Force
Knots and hitches
Common knots and hitches
Communication
Climbing calls
Leading single-pitch rock climbs
Learning to lead
Belaying
Belaying a lead climber
Belaying a second
Protection
Tips for placing protection
Natural protection
Man-made protection
Nuts and wedges 27
Multidirectional protection
Fixed protection - pegs
Fixed protection - bolts
Creating a belay
Attaching the rope to anchors
Equalising anchors
Abseiling
Rigging an abseil
Protecting an abseil
Stopping mid-abseil
Retrieving an abseil rope
Multi-pitch climbing
Belaying on multi-pitch routes
Multi-pitch abseiling
Multi-pitch abseiling procedure
Sport climbing
The art of falling
Lowering off
Considerations bottom roping
Miscellaneous techniques
Rescues
Accident avoidance
In an accident
Without leaving the belay
On a traverse
Escape from the belay
After escape from the belay
Hoisting
Rescuing an injured lead climber
Solo climbing
Aid climbing
Placing aiding gear
Leading an aid pitch
Ascending/cleaning an aid pitch
General advice for ascending
Becoming a better rock climber
Learning to move
It's all in the hips!
Hand and finger holds
Using opposing pressure
Climbing steeper rock
Resting
Climbing cracks
Training the mind
The mental game
Index
Rucksack Guides