The Complete CLIMBER'S Handbook

• Main Author: Cinnamon, Jerry
• Other Authors: Jerry, Cinnamon
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Ragged Mountain Press 2000
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Subjects: Rock climbing; Snow and ice climbing
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 This book grew out of many years of teaching climbing to individuals, many of whom have become masters of the sport. My premise has been that novices begin to learn under the tute lage of an experienced friend, instructor, or guide and eventually reach a point of mastery where they can climb safely with peers and per haps teach others. This book should remain valuable to you throughout your climbing career for review, as a guide to skill presentation, as a source of additional references, and to introduce you to new areas to master, such as working with groups. You can enjoy and practice climbing through out your life at whatever level of athletic ability or conditioning you possess as long as you are aware of your own limits. More than athletic ability, climbing demands thought and decision making. This book tries to show currently accepted techniques and procedures of climbing but it can never replace your own judgment as to how to apply them in the fluid situations that climbing offers.