Written by world renowned rock climbers and veteran Falcon authors John Long and Bob Gaines, this slim volume will be the go-to resource for the necessities of rock climbing safety. By getting back to basics, it will be a great resource for both beginners and experienced climbers looking to brush up on their skills.
Explains how to create safe, simple, and efficient rock climbing anchoring systems. This pocketsize handbook shows how to properly place and configure natural anchors, passive chocks, mechanical chocks, fixed gear, knots, belay anchors, toprope anchors, and rappel anchors--
Revised and updated to reflect the modern standards of equipment, technique, and training methods, this guide includes sections on face climbing; crack climbing; ropes, anchors, and belays; getting off the rock; sport climbing; and much more.
A complete guide to climbing the largest, most sheer rock faces in the world, entertainingly written by two of the most experienced climbers in the history of the sport.
There's a reason we pause at the vista overlook and be quiet for a second. The wilderness, or simply being outside in the natural world, provides us with a psychological reboot. It declutters our minds, washes off the guff, gives us a chance to see and feel ourselves as expansively as the Tunnel Overlook in Yosemite Valley. But the process is different, and in some ways, more powerful than the benefits we get from sleep. The Little Book of Outdoor Wisdom is a collection of all-new essays from legendary climber and outdoor writer John Long, an exploration of what connects us fundamentally to the outdoors and of why we return again and again. Through evocative anecdotes and sketches, told in Long's visceral yet poignant style, readers will rediscover their love for nature and glean a deeper appreciation for its rejuvenating effect.
Traditional, or simply, trad climbing, is a do-it-yourself adventure requiring the climbing team to negotiate the climb and to carry, hand-place and remove most if not all components of the roped safety system. In The Trad Climber’s Bible, two of the most revered and respected trad climbers in the world, John Long and Peter Croft, offer hard-won knowledge to aspiring trad climbers in a narrative format that is as informative as it is entertaining. With photos by iconic climbing photographer Greg Epperson and AMGA Certified Rock Instructor Bob Gaines, this full color book will appeal to climbers of all stripes.
Riding tubes in Venezuela. BASE jumping in Europe. Climbing big walls in Yosemite. Riding bulls in Texas. These first-person stories from John Long, while vastly different in content, share an identifiable emotional texture, tone and delivery, and fundamentally are of one piece. This is storytelling at its best--nonfiction that reads like fiction. In Stories from the Dirt, the action leaves you breathless, but it's the characters that really leave the lasting mark. In John's own words, "the secret sauce of this collection is that while the action rarely flags, it never leaves the people behind--like all stories worth a damn, [this collection] is all about the people."
This is an updated and revised guide to anchoring systems for rock climbers.
John Long - znany również jako Largo - to człowiek obdarzony wręcz niesamowitą smykałką do przygód. Każda z nich to wspaniała, barwna historia przesycona humorem, choć nie brakuje wśród nich i takich, w których pobrzmiewa nuta refleksji. Większość opowiadań zawartych w tej książce ma charakter autobiograficzny, część jest w dużym stopniu oparta na doświadczeniach autora, lecz rozgrywa się w fikcyjnych miejscach z fikcyjnymi bohaterami, pozostałe zaś są najczystszym wytworem jego fantazji. Zapraszamy zatem na yosemicki Camp 4, do wenezuelskiej dżungli i w wiele innych miejsc.