Find Your Way Home--Bestselling Sat Navs
Plan ahead and avoid traffic jams with one of our bestselling sat navs from top brands including TomTom and Garmin. We also stock a great range of up-to-date and fully-routable maps for your device, including popular destinations such as France, Portugal, North America and Scotland.
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Trade in Big Walls (How to Rock Climb) for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Plus, get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
From the Author
The most complete book on big wall techniques available.
How to Rock Climb: Big Walls is the most comprehensive book available on the subject of big wall climbing. It was written by authors with over 50 years of climbing experience. John Long was one of the pioneers of big wall climbing in the 1970's and John Middendorf is one of world's most experienced big wall climbers, with over 100 big wall climbs to his credit, and an engineer with an interest in documenting tools and techniques to boot. The text is largely a summary of a lifelong collection of notes and experiences, edited into a very readable book that really gives the reader the best overview of one of the most exciting specializations of mountaineering.
How to Rock Climb: Big Walls is the most comprehensive book available on the subject of big wall climbing. It was written by authors with over 50 years of climbing experience. John Long was one of the pioneers of big wall climbing in the 1970's and John Middendorf is one of world's most experienced big wall climbers, with over 100 big wall climbs to his credit, and an engineer with an interest in documenting tools and techniques to boot. The text is largely a summary of a lifelong collection of notes and experiences, edited into a very readable book that really gives the reader the best overview of one of the most exciting specializations of mountaineering.
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organise and find favourite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The best way to learn to aid and climb big walls with the exception of going out there and doing it. A good reference for beginners. The illustrations are a little corny. Looked like a throw back to the 1970's. Illustrations probably lifted from "Climbing Big Walls," edited by Mike Strassman.
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
It turns out instructional books have come a long way since 1994! A one stop shop for learning big wall techniques this is not. The style is clumsy, pictures poor and detail lacking in important areas. It's not all bad with some good advice and real life examples but on instructing the complex techniques of big wall climbing it does not fill it's remit.
Format:Paperback
Having climbed 2 big wall routes on El Cap, I would still re-read this book before going out for another route. Excellent descriptions of the most efficient aid climbing systems, how to haul, how to clean etc. First time you clean a traversing pitch you will be pleased you read this book! If you want to do a wall then beg, borrow, steal (or better buy) this book. Makes for a good read on the flight to California.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
