How to Big Wall Climb

by Chris McNamara, Steve McNamara (Editor), Jerry Dodrill (photos) (Illustrator)

This is the first step-by-step aid climbing guide to reveal all the secrets of aid climbing and will take you all the way to the top. To the Summit of El Capitan, in Yosemite.
To be able to climb El Cap you must be a 5.9 climber and know the basic climbing skills and be able to put together a sequence of actions and able to use the vast number of tools and equipment without fumbling or making a mess...
This is where this book comes in. It is the first HOW To do big wall book specifically organized and clearly designed to address the process of bilding the skills needed for the task. Step-by-step.

Genres: Climbing, Outdoors

144 pages, Paperback

First published April 3, 2012

Reviews

[Louie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great reference, time to put into practice :)
Had a few duplicate sentences and confusing descriptions, but still a good overview.

[Jean Dupenloup · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very useful guide to big wall climbing, stuffed with interesting tips and tricks.

While I have no immediate plans to climb a big wall, I found the book very useful in terms of advice that can also apply to longer trad routes.

My only complaint is it was riddled with typos. Get a proofreader, dude!

[William · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found this to be very heavy on extraneous details and light on the actual how to when you’re putting it into practice. Chris is a great resource of knowledge, but you’re better off just watching his YouTube videos and reading Something else like Higher Education or VDiff’s ebook.

[thatcher flynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

so detailed !!! this is truly our bible for the next 8 months


second read edit: less that a month away from half dome!!! still so much to learn!!

third read edit: reread on the boat to devils bay bc we haven’t practiced a second this year lol