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What is NOLS Wilderness Mountaineering (NOLS Library) about?

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-228) and index Wilderness mountaineering: Note on wilderness -- Elements of mountaineering -- NOLS priorities -- Climbing as a lifestyle and as a lifelong pursuit -- Mountain hazards: Objective hazards -- Subjective hazards -- Climbing equipment: Safety -- Movement on rock -- Movement on snow -- Movement on ice -- Movement as a safety system -- Equipment: Ropes -- Other types of cordage -- Carabiners -- Helmets -- Harnesses -- Knots -- Protection -- Tying in -- Safety systems: Belays -- Typical 5th class climb -- Closer look at the hip belay -- Rope systems, a progression -- Conclusions -- Leading: Leading free climbs -- Leading aid climbs -- Descending: Rappelling -- Lowering -- Safety on the descent -- Glacier travel and crevasse rescue: Route finding -- Belay -- Roping up -- Rescue -- Conclusions -- Improvised rescue: Ascending and descending fixed lines -- Tying off a belay rope -- Escaping a belay -- Reaching a fallen leader -- Reaching a helpless second -- Lowering -- Rappelling with a patient -- Clipping patients into anchors -- Passing knots with the end of the second rope -- Passing knots with a cordelette -- Raising -- Conclu

Author

Phil Powers

Publisher

Mechanicsburg, PA : National Outdoor Leadership School ., Stackpole Books

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811730860

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Lifestyle