How to Rock Climb
6th Edition
Published on 1. August 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-1-4930-5626-2 (ISBN)
Description
How to Rock Climb!, now in its fifth edition, is the most thorough instructional rock climbing book in the world. All the fundamentals-from ethics to getting up the rock-are presented in John Long's classic style. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the modern standards of equipment, technique, and training methods, this guide includes sections on face climbing; crack climbing; ropes, anchors, and belays; getting off the rock; sport climbing; and much more. It is the essential how-to book for rock climbers everywhere.
Now with more than 300 color photographs and illustrations, this is the most thorough and complete upgrade this best-selling title has seen since first publishing more than a decade ago.
Now with more than 300 color photographs and illustrations, this is the most thorough and complete upgrade this best-selling title has seen since first publishing more than a decade ago.
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Series
Edition
Sixth Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Rowman & Littlefield
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
33 Color Illustrations, 588 Color Photos
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
984 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-5626-2 (9781493056262)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
John Long | Bob Gaines
How to Rock Climb
E-Book
06/2022
6th Edition
Falcon Guides
€23.73
Available for download
Persons
John Long is an acclaimed rock climber and author of more than forty books, including several in Falcon's catalog. He is one of the most prolific adventure writers out there and has authored magazine articles, screenplays, documentary films, and television and movie scripts, as well as instructional rock climbing books.
Beginning in the mid-1970s with his historic one-day ascent of the Nose route on El Capitan, Long became a mainstay in the world of extreme sports and adventure. He and his elite group of climbers, the "Stonemasters", ushered in a new era of big wall climbing with their epic climbs in Yosemite National Park and elsewhere. In the years that followed, John Long transitioned from rock climbing to international exploration, traveling around the world from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the North Pole. Some of his many achievements include the first coast-to-coast traverse of Borneo and the discovery and exploration of the world's largest river cave.
John Long has also built a successful television and film career, producing the International Guinness Book of World Records television show before moving to feature films. The Sylvester Stallone movie, Cliffhanger, is based on one of Long's stories.
Beginning in the mid-1970s with his historic one-day ascent of the Nose route on El Capitan, Long became a mainstay in the world of extreme sports and adventure. He and his elite group of climbers, the "Stonemasters", ushered in a new era of big wall climbing with their epic climbs in Yosemite National Park and elsewhere. In the years that followed, John Long transitioned from rock climbing to international exploration, traveling around the world from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the North Pole. Some of his many achievements include the first coast-to-coast traverse of Borneo and the discovery and exploration of the world's largest river cave.
John Long has also built a successful television and film career, producing the International Guinness Book of World Records television show before moving to feature films. The Sylvester Stallone movie, Cliffhanger, is based on one of Long's stories.