Down: Down: The Complete Descent Manual for Climbers, Alpinists and Mountaineers
Book Structure
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- Foreword by Joe Simpson
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Safety; How to stay alive.
- Chapter 2: Feet; General notes on non technical descent in both winter and summer.
- Chapter 3: Tools; The tools of the trade and how to use those tools. This chapter covers all types of descenders, as well as notes on all associated software and hardware (abseil cord, hard-links, prusik cords etc).
- Chapter 4: Anchors; Everything from slinging trees to retrievable ice screws, bounce testing to non-anchor anchors.
- Chapter 5: Rappel; Here we start putting it all together, covering the core theory of descent, including back-ups, knots, and optimum set-ups.
- Chapter 6: Lowering; This covers both standard lowering off sports routes and backing off climbs, to more advanced self-rescue lowering, passing knots etc.
- Chapter 7: Advanced; This long chapter deals with pro techniques, many that will be new to many climbers, including blocking, ghosting and single rope rappels.
- Chapter 8: Problems; Sooner or later you're going to have to deal with problems in descent, such as stuck or damaged ropes, having ropes that don't reach anchors, or having to return back up your ropes. This chapter aims to come up with practical solutions for worst-case scenarios.
- Chapter 9: Comms: Many of the problems that arise in descent revolve around a failure in communication. This chapter offers some ideas and solutions surrounding this.
Down: Down: The Complete Descent Manual for Climbers, Alpinists and Mountaineers
Book Structure
- Foreword by Joe Simpson
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Safety; How to stay alive.
- Chapter 2: Feet; General notes on non technical descent in both winter and summer.
- Chapter 3: Tools; The tools of the trade and how to use those tools. This chapter covers all types of descenders, as well as notes on all associated software and hardware (abseil cord, hard-links, prusik cords etc).
- Chapter 4: Anchors; Everything from slinging trees to retrievable ice screws, bounce testing to non-anchor anchors.
- Chapter 5: Rappel; Here we start putting it all together, covering the core theory of descent, including back-ups, knots, and optimum set-ups.
- Chapter 6: Lowering; This covers both standard lowering off sports routes and backing off climbs, to more advanced self-rescue lowering, passing knots etc.
- Chapter 7: Advanced; This long chapter deals with pro techniques, many that will be new to many climbers, including blocking, ghosting and single rope rappels.
- Chapter 8: Problems; Sooner or later you're going to have to deal with problems in descent, such as stuck or damaged ropes, having ropes that don't reach anchors, or having to return back up your ropes. This chapter aims to come up with practical solutions for worst-case scenarios.
- Chapter 9: Comms: Many of the problems that arise in descent revolve around a failure in communication. This chapter offers some ideas and solutions surrounding this.
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BN ID: | 2940160739731 |
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Publisher: | Andrew Kirkpatrick |
Publication date: | 01/18/2022 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Sales rank: | 557,458 |
File size: | 17 MB |
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