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 enlarge | Authors: Mark Houston, Kathy Cosley
Brand: Cosley and Houston
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 30063
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 325
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 6.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 0898867495
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.522
EAN: 9780898867497
ASIN: 0898867495
Publication Date: November 2004
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Must have for all aspiring and experienced climbers October 24, 2005
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
A gem of a book for all aspiring and experienced climbers. Mark Houston and Kathy Cosley are highly respected working mountain guides. Their book is full of practical and modern advice based upon their years of climbing around the world. Climbers of every level will want this well written addition to their library.
 Climb harder than Freedom of the Hills... August 10, 2005
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
...but not to the extreme.
This book is the second chapter in an aspiring alpinists handbook. I found myself over the years amassing a pile of pooks on running, fittness*, nutrition*, supplements*, advanced rock climbing, ice climbing, crevasse rescue, orienteering*, navigation*, avalanche evaluation, etc. This book would have saved me a few bucks by putting alot of this in one place.
* = These are covered well in this book.
If you know Freedom of the Hills like the back ouf your hand, have Extreme Alpinism and a good book on slightly more advanced rock skills, don't bother. If not, get it.
Even with this book, you need a resource of some sort in avy eval and advanced rock/rope skills.
Sweet spot between the basics and the extreme December 28, 2004
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
This book hits the sweet spot between Freedom of the Hills and Mark Twight. Finally, a book for those of us who know the basics, maybe have done some guided mountaineering trips or novice routes, and already know how to rock climb, but need to know more in order to venture further on our own. The authors frame everything in terms of making decisions, which is very helpful when you are doing things for the first time. Good discussions of equipment, hazards, weather, navigation, and protective systems. The approach is very down to earth and practical.
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