Advantages: Clear diagrams. Chapter 6 and Parts III and IV. Quick reference. Disadvantages: Too brief on important subjects and too longwinded on unnecessary ones.
...into the mountains, onto the rock faces and climbing. That said, there are 'skills and techniques' that must become second nature, and a clear, well structured reference book is always going to be a useful decoration to a climbers bookshelf. Libby Peter organises her book very much with the MI and SPA qualifications in mind, with yellowy sections giving techniques for instructors. . .In truth, they are useful skills for all climbers to know but not ... ...is a teacher, and for some reason the book lacks much humor or fun.
The book is not comprehensive in its 225 pages, and the information Peter has decided to impart is mostly the most useful stuff, although sometimes she gets a bit flowery about the environment, history, bouldering, scrambling and 'looking after each other'. In my view this book, stripped to its essentials, is a book that covers rope-work well but that has been padded out with some ...
fantasticpete 20.10.2007
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