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 enlarge | Authors: John Long, Bob Gaines
Publisher: Falcon
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 108470
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0762723262
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.522
EAN: 9780762723263
ASIN: 0762723262
Publication Date: September 1, 2006
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 The last word on climbing anchors March 30, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Climbing Anchors (2nd Edition) by John Long is a newly updated guide and reference to building safe and solid climbing anchors. It combines the best content from "Climbing Anchors" and "More Climbing Anchors" published in 1993 and 1996 respectively.
Here in one comprehensive volume is all the necessary instruction to help climbers place pro, tie critical knots, and construct SRENE anchors. Introduced in this volume is the "self-equalizing" but "limited extension" Equalette anchor system. This technique is an important one to have in a climber's anchor-builing arsenal.
Rocked my world January 9, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
John Long has done the climbing community a great service with the publication of his updated climbing anchor book. His previous works helped create a defacto standard for anchor construction, but suffered from a lack of objective data to support its assertions.
In this new book Long has worked with others to scientifically test the anchoring technique he popularized with his last book, the cordelette. Through this testing he discovered that the cordelette is seriously flawed as a technique for equalizing anchors and puts forth the alternative of the "equalette", a technique that he has worked with others to test extensively in the lab and the the field.
I strongly recommend this book to any climber. As a climber with well over a decade of experience it challenged my assumptions and opened my eyes.
George Marsden
Los Alamos, NM
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