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Inside you'll find everything the beginning climber needs to know about toproping: basic and advanced anchor set-ups, belay techniques, lowering from fixed anchors and more. Photos help guide the reader through complex toproping situations. Told from an anecdotal point of view, this book sets guidelines for problem solving in the field. Includes information on group management, glossary of terms and index.

Ice World offers an overview of the world's best climbs and stunning on the edge photography. Stories from Lowe's personal experiences on the ice provide insight into the brutal challenges and rewarding triumphs that fuel his passion. Lowe discusses his favorite climbs from throughout the world and includes detailed, fully illustrated instructions for mastering both basic and advanced ice climbing techniques, information on avoiding hazards, and more.

Stay healthy at high heights with this pocket guide--now updated with the most current information on preparing for and adapting to altitude. Updated guidelines for people going to altitude (heights over 7,000 feet) with pre-existing health conditions such as heart conditions, diabetes, and cancer. A handy glossary and easy-to-read tables covering symptoms and signs, altitude illness, and high altitude drugs. Case studies of real situations and a question-and-answer section help readers better understand general issues about altitude and its effects, and more.

Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue is a comprehensive course in understanding glaciers, crossing them, avoiding crevasses, and rescuing crevasse victims. Topics covered include: how glaciers form and how crevasses develop; basic principles of glacier travel; route finding; knots and harnesses; holding a fall; rescue techniques, including self-belay and what a victim should do; and glacier skiing and sled hauling. Sidebars feature descriptions of accidents and near-accidents to emphasize the importance of the techniques presented.

Now in its third edition, Mexico's Volcanoes covers the third, fifth, and seventh highest mountains in North America -- El Pico de Orizaba, Popocatepetl, and Iztaccihuatl -- and two lesser-known peaks, La Malinche and Nevado de Toluca. This updated guide provides directions to all of the newly constructed roads to approaches and climbing routes, and information on routes that have been closed because of volcanic activity.

Comprehensive information on the country's most rewarding routes, how to get there, what to bring, what to expect, and the history behind it all. The book covers twenty-one major areas of Nepal, plus some alternatives and side trips, in all types of terrain.

A well informed guide to Tibet, featuring pre-trip planning, discussions of the most scenic routes, and an overview of Tibetan culture and history. Trek duration, distance and elevations are listed for each route description. The book also includes a helpful Tibetan language chapter, a 16-page photo color insert and 15 maps. With a trek to the sacred Mount Kailas, among other long- and short- distance treks.

Hermann Buhl was the first man to stand atop Nanga Parbat and his account has inspired generations of climbers, yet that classic, shaped and romanticized by a collaborator, does not reveal the man Buhl really was. Now celebrated mountaineer Reinhold Messner and journalist Horst Hofler publish Buhl in his own words in Hermann Buhl: Climbing without Compromise. Drawing text from Buhl's original climbing diaries, journals, and articles written for mountaineering publications of his time, Messner and Hofler present a portrait of the whole man- strong-willed, creative, and fragile.