Climbing Anchors
eBook - ePub

Climbing Anchors

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eBook - ePub

Climbing Anchors

About this book

This completely revised and updated edition, illustrated with 359 color photographs and drawings, brings together in a single volume the anchoring systems most popular among climbers. If you’re new to trad climbing, this book details the necessary skills needed to make safe gear placements and build solid and efficient anchor systems, based on simple guidelines. This new edition of Climbing Anchors is the climber’s complete and authoritative source of information on placement and evaluation criteria for nuts and camming devices. Included are assessment principles for bolts and a thorough discussion of how to rig and assess toprope, rappel, single-pitch, and multi-pitch anchor systems. Climbing Anchors covers it all- from fundamental knots to sophisticated rigging and load distribution skills.

Updated fourth edition includes:
  • Over 150 additional new photographs
  • The latest equipment and techniques for anchoring
  • Introduces the new STRANDS principle for evaluating any anchor system
  • Correct application of girth hitch masterpoint anchors
  • Dispels old myths about shock loading and equalization with new guidelines

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Yes, you can access Climbing Anchors by John Long,Bob Gaines in PDF and/or ePUB format. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Falcon Guides
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781493074563
Edition
4

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction: A Brief History of Rock Hardware
  3. 1. Slings and Carabiners
  4. 2. Rock Assessment
  5. 3. Natural Anchors
  6. 4. Nuts (aka Chocks)
  7. 5. Cams
  8. 6. Pitons and Bolts
  9. 7. Fall Forces, Vectors, and the Jesus Nut
  10. 8. Judging the Direction of Pull
  11. 9. Anchor Systems
  12. 10. Toproping Anchors
  13. 11. Rappel Anchors
  14. 12. Climb On
  15. About the Authors