- 100 day returns - With an easy email sign up
- FREE 3-year extended warranty - With an easy email sign up
- Price match promise - With an easy email sign up
Product details
- Author: John Long and Bob Gaines
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
- Publication date: Jul, 2013
- ISBN13: 9780762782079
- Pages: 224
Product information
Climbing Anchors provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and easy-to-understand information on how to place protection and construct secure anchors to safeguard your life.
John Long, the author of the definitive instructional manual How to Rock Climb!, applies the same clear, concise, and entertaining prose to this updated edition, illustrated with more than 100 photos.Learn how to place and configure solid, secure anchors in a variety of real world climbing situations and see the pros and cons of many options. Natural anchors, passive chocks, mechanical chocks, fixed gear, knots, belay anchors, toprope anchors, and rappel anchors are all discussed in detail. And, for the first time, the crucial dynamics of equalization and fall forces are thoroughly investigated, including an analysis of rigging systems.
Tests conducted specifically for this book detail the true performance parameters of the cordelette, sliding X, and equalette, as opposed to the 'traditional wisdom' that guided choices in the past – and was often wrong.
Completely updated and accompanied by all new color photos, Climbing Anchors provides all the essential knowledge needed for climbers to create safe, simple, and efficient rock climbing anchoring systems.
Product features
In need of product advice? Chat live with our team of dedicated experts.
Click the 'Support' link in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen to start a chat. Monday - Friday 9am-9pm, Saturday - Sunday 9am-5pm.

Let us know you agree to cookies
We use marketing, analytical and functional cookies as well as similar technologies to give you the best experience. Third parties, including social media platforms, often place tracking cookies on our site to show you personalised adverts outside of our website.
We store your cookie preferences for two years and you can edit your preferences via ‘manage cookies’ or through the cookie policy at the bottom of every page. For more information, please see our cookie policy.