How to Climb™: Self-Rescue,9780934641975

How to Climb™: Self-Rescue

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ISBN13: 9780934641975
ISBN10: 0934641978
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1997-01-01
Publisher(s): FalconGuides
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Summary

This book fully describes and illustrates a variety of techniques that every climber should know for safety and self-reliance. Whether you need to assist your partner past a difficult section of a climb or rappel down a multiple pitch route with an injured climber, you owe it to yourself and your fellow climbers to be prepared.

Table of Contents

Foreword iv
Preface vi
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1(4)
The Six Steps of Self-Rescue
5(2)
Tools of Self-Rescue
7(6)
Knots Used in Self-Rescue
13(12)
Escaping the Belay
25(6)
Rappelling and Ascending
31(10)
Passing Knots
41(10)
Assisted/Counter-Weight Rappel
51(6)
Leader Rescue
57(8)
Rescuing the Second
65(10)
Pulley Systems
75(8)
Aid Climbing
83(4)
Evacuating the Victim
87(2)
The Complete Self-Rescue
89(6)
Appendices 95

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