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For more than thirty years, novice to expert climbers around the world have relied on Freedom as the leading textbook on mountaineering skills, techniques, and equipment. Each chapter in this updated edition has been revised, rewritten, and expanded. The book's four sections cover climbing and outdoor fundamentals; rock, snow, ice, and alpine climbing; emergency, prevention and response; and the mountain environment. Included are expanded treatments of belaying, leading, and protecting on rock; glacier travel and crevasse rescue; and wilderness travel, plus a new chapter on first aid for typical mountaineering maladies.Freedom is written by a team of more than 40 mountaineering experts, who use and teach the text's climbing techniques.
| ISBN-13 | 9780898865813 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0898865816 |
| List Price | $145.00 |
| Edition | 6th Edition |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Publisher | Mountaineers Books |
| Published On | 1998-01-01 |
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