Climbing Anchors Field Guide

by John Long, Bob Gaines

With more than 100 photos and detailed captions showing how to create safe and simple rock-climbing anchoring systems, this is a take-to-the-crag companion book to our huge-selling Climbing Anchors.

Designed for quick use by climbers on site, this book shows how to properly place and configure natural anchors, passive chocks, mechanical chocks, fixed gear, knots, belay anchors, toprope anchors and rappel anchors. This field guide is up to date with the essential knowledge every climber can depend on.

Genres: Climbing, Collections

128 pages, Paperback

First published November 4, 2014

About the author

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John Long is an American rock climber and author.

Reviews

[Keegan Day · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good base of info but slightly outdated, missing some modern techniques (e.g. girth hitch anchor)