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4802 - "Climbing Self Rescue: Improvising Solutions for Serious Situations" by Andy Tyson and Molly Loomis
When your climbing team is in trouble on the mountain—how to get
yourself out of a jam without calling 911. • Self-rescue procedures for
teams of two—the most common climbing party size • Techniques equally
effective on rock, snow, and ice • Utilizes gear climbers already carry
in their rack • Includes 40 one-page rescue scenarios and solutions for
analysis The rope is stuck—or too short. A crucial piece of gear is
MIA. You’ve wandered off route into dicey terrain. An injury leaves you
or your partner in need of help. Climb long enough and finding yourself
in a jam far from help is inevitable. In Climbing: Self Rescue, two
longtime climbing instructors and guides teach how to improvise your
own solutions, calling for outside help only when necessary.
Because
few climbers carry fancy (and expensive) search and rescue gear, all
skills taught in this book use the items typically found on a climbing
rack: rope, carabiners, slings, and cord. Text, illustrations, and
photos explain knots, belaying and hauling systems, rappelling,
ascension, passing knots, how to safely assist and rig an injured
climber, and more. Roughly half of the book is devoted to real-life
climbing scenarios and solutions ranging from moderate to severe.
Because real-life situations rarely unfold as they do in practice,
Climbing Self-Rescue teaches how to analyze and improvise your way out
of a crisis. |