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.