Climbing Anchors by John Long

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This completely revised and updated edition with all new color photos brings together in a single volume the anchoring systems most popular among climbers. Most climbers today learn their craft on artificial climbing walls and on sport routes with fixed protection. Their first efforts to lead on trad routes often come as a rude shock--they find that they haven't the skills and training to safeguard the climb or to set up solid belays. This new edition of Climbing Anchors is the climber's show more complete and authoritative source of information on protection, from fundamental knots to sophisticated rigging and equalizing skills. show less

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ianw 49 reviews

Required reading for any climber. Setting decent anchors is far from intuitive even for experienced climbers, and this book helps a lot.

Sep 16, 2008

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The first of two awesome anchor references. Learn this stuff if you climb!

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John Long

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Bob Gaines

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Bob Gaines has been a professional rock climbing guide since 1983 and is the owner of Vertical Adventures Rock Climbing School, voted the top rock climbing school in America by Outside magazine. Bob has worked extensively in the film business as a climbing stunt coordinator. He was sylvester Stallone's climbing instructor for Cliffhanger and show more doubled for William Shatner in Star Trek V as Caption Kirk free-soloing on El Capitan. He is the author of several Falcon rock climbing guides and instruction books, including Best Climbs Joshua Tree National Park, Toproping, Rappelling, and the co-author of Rock Climbing: The AMGA Single Pitch Manual and Climbing Anchors. show less