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Knots for Climbers: How To Climb Series

Autor Craig Luebben
en Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 2011
All the knots a climber needs to know This completely revised and updated edition of Craig Luebben's bestseller covers the ten essential climbing knots all climbers need to know, and then presents sixteen others for various special situations. Color illustrations make learning these knots a cinch. Knots include the Munter Hitch, the Auto Block, the Clove Hitch, and the Equalizing Figure Eight.This edition isnewly illustrated with sharp color photos that clearly show how to tie the knots, as well as with photos of the knots being used in the field.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780762770014
ISBN-10: 0762770015
Pagini: 51
Ilustrații: colour illustrations
Dimensiuni: 150 x 221 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Ediția:Updated
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
Seria How To Climb Series


Notă biografică

Craig Luebben was an AMGA Rock Guide Instructor and served on the Board of Directors for six years. He was the author or co-author of nine books on climbing and wrote numerous gear reviews and travel articles for Climbing and Rock & Ice magazines. He had a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University and had done graduate work in rocket science. An off-width aficionado, Craig invented the expandable tube chock known as a Big Bro (see page TK), which is still sold by Trango. On August 9th, 2009, at the age of 49, Craig was killed while leading a pitch on Mount Torment in North Cascades National Park when a car-sized block of ice broke off sending him on a 30-foot fall. Craig is survived by his wife Silvia and his daughter, who was 6 at the time¿both of whom he loved deeply. Clyde Soles is a freelance writer and photographer with four decades of climbing experience. He is former Senior Editor of Rock & Ice magazine and the founder of Trail Runner magazine. Clyde has authored or co-authored nine outdoor how-to books, including two other knots books.

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Teaches the reader the Twelve Essential Climbing Knots, and then presents eighteen others for various special situations. Color illustrations make learning these knots a cinch.