WEA editors
256pp/photos/illus ISBN 9780736068024
Stock No. MTU183With this book the experts at the Wilderness Education Association (WEA) ensure you learn proper technique essential to a safe and enjoyable climbing experience. They prepare you for your adventure with info on fitness and conditioning, equipment and gear selection, and nutrition. Safety skills are integrated throughout the book, ensuring safety is never overlooked. You'll learn how you can use indoor climbing to practice basic skills before moving on to refine and build on those skills in the outdoors. You'll find easy-to-follow instruction of climbing fundamentals, including knots, belaying, building anchor systems, moving on rock, descending, and lead climbing, giving you all the skills and knowledge you need to be a capable beginning climber. The WEA is a not-for-profit organization that works to promote the professionalism of outdoor leadership through establishment of national standards, curriculum design, implementation, advocacy, and research-driven initiatives. It has an affiliate network of more than 40 colleges, universities, and private and nonprofit groups that offer its courses
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Due to be published this spring!
ABOVE IS DUE IN MARCH