Now fully updated to include the very latest advice & equipment, this practical, illustrated guide provides the ideal introduction to the challenging, exciting skill of climbing, an ever-popular sport that attracts more & more enthusiasts every year. Like any adventure sport, climbing has its fair share of associated risks, particularly for the untrained or unwary. Written by an experienced climber & instructor, this book offers reassuring step-by-step instructions, with practical advice on all aspects of safety & training. The informative text is complemented by clear illustrations & superb, commissioned photography. Equipment, emergency & rescue techniques, training schedules, & guidelines on environment & ethics are included. For beginners & intermediate climbers alike, Rock & Wall Climbing is an indispensable & motivating guide. ...

Ever wanted to live like a rock star? Rock `n` Roll Hotels is the perfect guide for anyone who wants to party like an Osbourne
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Rucksack Guide
- Rock Climbing is your essential handbook when climbing. It offers concise guidance & support for any situation
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Rock Climbing is experienced climber Pete Hills’ Cicerone guide to essential technical rock-climbing skills for leaders & seconds. The guide covers all the basic technical skills, making it ideal for beginners starting out but also for those wanting to increase their technical knowledge. It covers subjects such as equipment, knots, leading & abseiling. Many peripheral skills are also detailed & there are Tips & Notes boxes throughout the guide highlighting important techniques & the author’s observations. The book also contains sections on Tying on, climbing calls, moving on rock, placing gear, belaying, leading, seconding a climb, abseiling, multi-pitch routes & top & bottom roping. ...

Rock Climbing Down Under: Australia Exposed offers something for everyone that has any affiliation with rock climbing. Photographer Simon Carter completely suspends us in 21 of Australia`s climbing scenes. Accompanying the mesmerizing photography are area introductions & personal stories written by no fewer than 80 climbers. Thread by thread, the climbers` stories weave a magical sentiment throughout the book. Kim Carrigan, John Fantini, Dave Jones, Kevin Lindorff, Neil Monteith, Chris Webb Parsons, & Mike Law are only some of the 80 talented climbing authors found in the book. The images taken by Simon Carter combined with the stories written by the most significant contributors to the history & culture of Australian climbing make Rock Climbing Down Under: Australia Exposed a textural masterpiece that will awaken all of your senses; an unprecedented expose of Australian climbing. ...

This is the only guidebook to document Irish Climbing in a single volume. It focuses on the best routes at the best crags &



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This is the official handbook of `the Mountaineering Instructor, Single Pitch, Climbing Wall & Climbing Wall Leading Award Schemes`. Written by one of the best known rock climbing instructors in the UK this is the definitive & comprehensive `how to rock climb` textbook, now in its revised & updated second edition. It covers un-roped bouldering & movement skills as well as every aspect of single & multi-pitch rock climbing, abseiling, problem solving, the climbing environment, the history & development of the sport & much more. This book is a reference tool for every climber, from novice to expert, as well as containing specific ideas for anyone wanting to help coach & instruct others. It is the official handbook for the UK qualification system that

Includes:: `the Mountaineering Instructor, Climbing Wall, Single Pitch & Climbing Wall Leader Awards & is endorsed by the BMC, MCof S & MI. Revised throughout there are additional chapters on Sport Climbing, Sea Level Traversing, Ropes Courses & Via Ferrata, Adaptive Techniques for Disabled Climbers, Injury Avoidance, Improving Technique, Risk Management & the Law & Working with Young People. It has a functional design with easy-reference colour-coded pages, striking illustrations that complement the text & inspiring photos that give a genuine flavour of the breadth of climbing possibilities across Britain & Irel&. It is the second of a series of manuals from Mountain Leader Training UK that

Includes:: the highly successful ` Hill Walking` & ` Winter Skills`.



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Adalbert Stifter`s Rock Crystal is a Christmas story & a story about the heart of the ice, the crystal. The charm of this quasi-fairy tale is made even more poignant by the knowledge of the author`s eventual suicide. This seemingly simple fable of two children lost in an icy landscape is eloquent in its innocence, but is implicit with an unremitting consciousness of the fragility of life & the inevitability of death. This is a wintry story of village life in the high mountains, but also a parable of belief & faith. The Rock Crystal of the title are shards of ice of the glacier that dominates the landscape that Adalbert Stifter describes. Translated from the German by Elizabeth Mayer & Marianne Moore, Adalbert Stifter`s Rock Crystal is published by Pushkin Press. `A tale of almost unendurable suspense`
- New York Review of Books Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868) was an Austrian writer, painter & poet closely associated with the Biedermeier movement in European art. Following his studies at the University of Vienna, he was highly regarded as a tutor among aristocratic families. The success of his first story The Condor in 1840 inaugurated a steady writing career, culminating in Der Nachsommer, praised by Nietzsche as one of the two great novels of 19th century Germany. He was especially notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing, & has long been popular in the German-speaking world, influencing writers such as Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann & W.G. Sebald.
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Rock Ferry & New Ferry in 1898 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map is double-sided. The main map covers the area from Rock Ferry to New Ferry, including part of Bebington Ward. Coverage stretches from Rock Ferry station southward to Tollbar Corner, & from Dacre Hill eastward to the Mersey. Features include New Ferry Park, New Ferry Pier, The Dell, Thorncote, Woodhey, tramway, St Anne`s RC Church, Rock Park, Royal Rock Hotel, Bedford Park Athletic Grounds, St Peter`s church, St Mark`s church, Port Sanitary Hospital, etc. On the reverse is a section of the adjacent sheet 13.11 extending coverage westward to include King`s Lane, Egerton Park, Wirral College & St Stephen`s church; plus a few extracts from a street directory for New Chester Road, New Ferry Road & Rock Park. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

This volume recounts the history of 12 rock lighthouses in various parts of the British Isles, how & why they were constructed & of the difficulties that had to be overcome. It contains varied information, such as materials for the Bell Rock lighthouse had to be carried to it in sailing ships, rather than in steam ships. This well-illustrated book contains many stories & dramas recorded about the lighthouses & their keepers, such as Grace Darling's rescue bid off the stormy Northmberland coast & the tragedy of the Smalls. ...