Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue write by Andrew Selters. This book was released on 1999. Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue is a comprehensive course in understanding glaciers, crossing them, avoiding crevasses, and rescuing crevasse victims. Sidebars feature descriptions of accidents and near-accidents to emphasize the importance of the techniques presented.
Crevasse
Crevasse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crevasse write by Nicholas Wong. This book was released on 2015. Crevasse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Nicholas Wong is a poet and teacher and even a "fire-starter," according to Time Out: Hong Kong. His poetry collection Crevasse, which Tarfia Faizullah described as "poetry that is unashamed to be relentless" and Ocean Vuong called "a book of seared seeking, a restlessness that opens," is Kaya's most recent release. In celebration of this book, Kaya asked him a few questions about language, poetry, and writing. Nicholas Wong has has been a finalist for the New Letters Poetry Award and the Wabash Prize for Poetry, and he received his MFA from City University of Hong Kong.--
Glacier Travel & Crevasse Rescue
Glacier Travel & Crevasse Rescue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Glacier Travel & Crevasse Rescue write by Andy Selters. This book was released on 1999-11-30. Glacier Travel & Crevasse Rescue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. * Technical advice for traveling safely on glaciers and how to perform a rescue should the worst happen * Sidebars provide extra lessons on techniques presented * Large format with photographs showing the techniques discussed Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue is a comprehensive course in understanding glaciers, crossing them, avoiding crevasses, and rescuing crevasse victims. Topics covered include: how glaciers form and how crevasses develop; basic principles of glacier travel; route finding; knots and harnesses; holding a fall; rescue techniques, including self-belay and what a victim should do; and glacier skiing and sled hauling. Sidebars feature descriptions of accidents and near-accidents to emphasize the importance of the techniques presented.
Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue
Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue write by Mike Thomas. This book was released on 2020-04-29. Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Learn how to: - Tie into the rope with chest coils - Move efficiently on snow - Make snow and ice anchors - Perform a crevasse rescue - Prusik out of a crevasse Plus much more. Further information: * New for April 2020 * 80 pages * 100+ detailed illustrations and photographs * Everything you need to know to get across a glacier safely
Touching the Void
Touching the Void - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Touching the Void write by Joe Simpson. This book was released on 2012-12-12. Touching the Void available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and camaraderie are explored in this electronic edition of the mountaineering classic, with never before seen colour photographs taken during the trip itself.
