High - Advanced Multi Pitch Climbing

There aren't many books out on the market like this. Most experienced rock climbers have to buy beginner books just for a couple of helpful tips that apply to our experience level. This book speaks to those who have been climbing awhile. Filled with helpful tips and simplified processes for accomplishing climbing tasks. As an instructor of intermediate level climbers I go to this book again and again for new insights or helpful ideas to make the climbing process simpler and more efficient. Honestly the authors are severely underpricing this book.

Best book, hands-down, for comprehensiveness, amount of kN diagrams, and personality. I keep coming back to this book again and again to improve my skills and safety.

Great book but poor edition. Small black and white pictures are difficult to understand. May be it looks better on PC, I haven't checked out yet. Also, where can I get additional PDF mentioned in the book?

This is not a how-to manual but more of a list of strategy improving advice on tackling multi-pitch routes. It includes tip starting from the usual gear, belaying and rapelling to the more advanced topics of simulclimbing and soloing.

This book is awesome. Very practical. Very detailed. Lots of useful info. Worth every penny.

It's hard to find good discussions of multi-pitch climbing that present tactics and techniques that one can actually use. This title does this, drawing on great climbers' experiences. Be comfortable overlooking some typos--in the Kindle version at least-- they don't detract from the value of the text. A great read for intermediate multi-pitch climbers who want to up their game!

I enjoyed being able to go through a book on multipitch climbing. Though it's sometimes tough to visualize what the text is describing, using the companion website was super helpful. Can't wait to put this information to use.

I really wanted to love this book and integrate its wisdom with my experience and come out with new, more efficient ways to climb. While there were plenty of good ideas and a few solid takeaways that I will definitely be giving a try, I didn't find anything truly revolutionary and some of the ideas that sounded really interesting, weren't explained thoroughly and the pictures were very hard to interpret without proper captions. The other big issue I had with this book was the constant reference to external resources that were unavailable. I clicked the links and it just took me to the standard "404 page not found." When it comes to complex and advanced systems, the devil's in the details... and when the details are in unavailable external resources, you miss out on much of what the authors were trying to convey. Oh and my biggest complaint about the book was the excessive amount of typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors. I can deal with the errant typo from time to time, but the sheer number of errors was very distracting and made the content difficult to digest. I'm not sure who the editor was, if there even was one, but if they do another edition, they absolutely need to improve their editorial process.

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Chock full of tips and details based on real experience of serious climbers. Not sure how to tie into belay anchors, answers in here. Want to know how to place counter-pieces to improve marginal placements, it's here too. Standard multi-pitch, simul-climbing, and much more presented in an accessible and reassuring style.

A very comprehensive e-book with excellent section on self / partner rescue. Definitely worth the purchase if you're keen to learn about multi-pitch tactics and options. Best read in conjunction with their website at times which has updated drawings / photos to help better illustrate the systems.

A book written by climbing experts no doubt, there's a superb level of detail in the information and the book contains really all you need to know to hit some big multi-pitch climbs. Unfortunately climbing experts are possibly not the best people to get final proof-reading and editorial privileges in the production of a book. The myriad spelling and word substitution errors detract greatly from the reading experience and the pictures that fractionally dilute the huge text driven explanations of complex rope systems and procedures are small, unclear and in black and white for Pete's sake. In this day and age there is really no excuse for that. Additionally, the knots appendix with its mis-formatted tables will give you a headache when you try and read it, as will trying to download the supplementary PDF (where the pictures are "due to file-size limitations" apparently). It's not at the web address listed in the book because that does not actually exist. In short, like other Andy Kirkpatrick books, this is a good first draft. It is a good concept and I am glad it exists for me to read and learn from but it would be so much easier to read and learn from if there had been more time and effort dedicated to the layout, spelling and proper inclusion of quality pictures and diagrams. In its current iteration this is pro climbing in an amateur book.

A fascinating book, full of reliable safety tips and useful advice from two of the most respected British trad climbers. A must-read for anyone getting into serious climbing.