Rucksack Guide: Mountain Walking & Trekking is your essential handbook for when on the mountain. It offers concise guidance & support for whatever situations you might find yourself in, including: technical skills
- tips & reminders on the key techniques weather
- from interpreting weather maps to dealing with thunderstorms navigation
- various techniques including using a compass the setting the map safety
- essential procedures to ensure the safety of yourself, your party & others on the mountain emergencies
- guidance on what to do in extreme situations. The book is colour-coded for easy reference & all information is presented in lists & tables, making it simple to understand in testing conditions. The Rucksack Guide series is taken from Mountaineering: The essential skills for mountain walkers & climbers
- the definitive handbook for hill walkers, climbers & mountaineers.





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This guide describes 50 full & half-day walks in Mallorca`s mountainous northwest, in the stunning Serra de Tramuntana. Whilst ...

This guidebook describes 40 day walks exploring Snowdonia. It showcases some of the best mountain walks in the area, with routes up Snowdon & Tryfan alongside other classic peaks like Y Garn, Cadair Idris & the Glyders. Routes are graded easy to strenuous & include airy & pulse-quickening scrambles such as Crib Goch & Bristly Ridge as well as the Snowdon Horseshoe, the Nantlle Ridge & a 2-day traverse of all 15 of Snowdon`s peaks over 3000ft. Walks range in distance from 4 miles (6km) to 16 miles (26km). Clear route descriptions are accompanied by OS mapping, & for each walk there is key information about distance, grade, ascent, terrain, access & parking. With useful advice on where to stay & when to go, & an English-Welsh glossary, this book is an invaluable guide to discovering both the popular & less well-trodden corners of Snowdonia. Snowdonia can justifiably lay claim to some of the finest mountain walking in Britain, from the bristling, jagged ridges of Snowdon to the huge grassy mounds of the Carneddau & the stone-girt fortresses of the Glyderau. These are big mountains with big personalities, with glowering crags & deep rocky cwms. Whether you are based in Bala, Beddgelert, Llanberis, Betws-y-Coed, Dolgellau or Capel Curig, you`ll find walks in this guidebook to suit you. ...

This attractive & cleverly structured guide gives walkers ten of the finest walks on the high mountains of the Snowdonia National Park in a popular pocketable format. With clear information, an overview & introduction for each walk, expertly written numbered directions, large scale Ordnance Survey maps, superb, eye-grabbing panoramic photographs, & interpretation of points of interest along the way, these guides set a new standard in clarity & ease-of-use. Featured walks include: The Carneddau, The Glyderau, Tryfan, Y Garn, Snowdon, Moel Siabod, Moel Hebog, Rhionog Fawr, The Arans & Cadair Idris. One of a series of six books for Snowdonia in the popular Top 10 Walks series. Handy, pocket-sized, full colour walking guides written by experts. Other titles in the series include: Ridge Walks & Scrambles, Hill Walks & Easy Summits, Woodland Walks, Walks with History & Pub Walks. ...

David Pedgley’s Cicerone guide to Mountain Weather is a valuable resource for hill-walkers & climbers wanting to plan their activities so as to avoid inconvenience & dangers posed by bad weather. The guide provides an understanding of Britain’s complex & ever changing weather with a view to enhancing the mountain experience for all outdoor enthusiasts. It

Includes:: information, based on the very latest weather research, on the kind of weather forecasts available & where to find them, detailed explanations about weather maps, how mountains ‘make their own weather’ & identifies weather elements to recognizes an order to read the weather when out walking or climbing.

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Steve Backshall has been climbing since his teens & has a genuine love affair with the mountains, & with an environment that has the power to make a human being feel very small, very vulnerable & very alive. MOUNTAIN
- A LIFE ON THE ROCKS is the dramatic account of a life of daring, a narrative peppered with memorable anecdotes. In 2008 Steve broke his back climbing in Wales. It gave him the motivation to contend with his devils & seek new challenges. His gripping memoir flashes back to his advanced Himalayan mountaineer qualification with the Indian army, surrounded by soaring lammergeiers (which the Tibetans use to crunch down the bones of their dead & bear their spirits skywards), chough & ravens. It also describes the first ascent of Mount Kuli in the Bornean rainforest in search of new species of animals, & tells of the traumas & near-death experiences Steve went through summiting this menacing peak. He tells of Karakoram, & the foothills around K2, the world`s second-highest mountain, & the other Himalayan challenges of Lhotse & Cho Oyu, & of his climbing companion`s fall into a crevasse on the trail of a snow leopard. Another marvellous episode is the first ascent of the Venezuelan sandstone massif, Tepuis, & sleeping out on the rockface for five days. MOUNTAIN
- A LIFE ON THE ROCKS is both a quest & a wonderfully absorbing autobiography by one of Britain`s most intrepid climbers.

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Steve Backshall`s love affair with the mountains has taken him to some of the world`s wildest places, environments that have the power to make a human being feel very small, very vulnerable & very alive. MOUNTAIN: A LIFE OF THE ROCKS is an account of his most breathtaking expeditions: heading into the ` Death Zone` on the roof of the world in the Himalayas, & picking a precarious route up hundreds of metres of rock in the Arctic & Alps. There are expeditions of exploration, as Steve makes the first ascent of jungle peaks & scales the tabletop mountains of the ` Lost World`, Venezuela`s Gran Sabana, in search of undiscovered animal species on their summits. Steve recalls his apprenticeship in the art of mountaineering with the Indian army, & the terror & near-disaster of some of his more ill-fated adventures, including the aftermath of the fall that should have ended his life. This is a tale of terror & ecstasy, a book that tries to get to the heart of why we risk our lives to climb & conquer. But most of all, MOUNTAIN is a love letter to the wilderness, from one of the world`s most adventurous spirits. ...

Mountaincraft & Leadership was first published in 1969 & went through three editions, with numerous reprints, before this fourth edition. It has become established as one of the authoritative texts in the field of UK mountaineering & hillwalking, both for the recreational participant & those leading others in the hills. It is now published by The Mountain Training Boards of England & Scotl&. With the death of Eric Langmuir this new edition has been thoroughly rewritten by a team of experts & specialists to bring it up to date & incorporate latest thinking & developments in equipment & access legislation. New illustrations & diagrams have been commissioned to support the revised text to enhance this fully comprehensive text. ...

Mountaineering is aimed at anyone interested in outdoor pursuits on hills & mountains
- including hill walkers, climbers mountaineers
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With more than 600, 000 copies sold, Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills is the acclaimed bible for climbers all over the world, & the new edition marks the 50th anniversary of this seminal title. Since the publication of the first edition in 1960, Freedom, as the book is known, has endured as a classic mountaineering text. From choosing equipment to tying a climbing knot, & from basic rappelling techniques to planning an expedition
- it`s all here in this essential mountaineering reference. Major updates include a significant new chapter on conditioning, plus detailed & extensive revisions to rescue & first-response, aid climbing, & waterfall
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