Highly detailed examination of nuts, cams, bolts, slings and other climbing gear and how to use it all (albeit with an American slant, eg anchor = belay or running belay in UK parlance).
To quote the publisher: "This completely revised and updated edition, illustrated with 359 colour photographs and drawings, brings together in a single volume the anchoring systems most popular among climbers. If you’re new to trad climbing, this book details the necessary skills needed to make safe gear placements and build solid and efficient anchor systems, based on simple guidelines. This new edition of Climbing Anchors is the climber’s complete and authoritative source of information on placement and evaluation criteria for nuts and camming devices. Included are assessment principles for bolts and a thorough discussion of how to rig and assess top-rope, rappel, single-pitch, and multi-pitch anchor systems. Climbing Anchors covers it all- from fundamental knots to sophisticated rigging and load distribution skills."
This updated fourth edition includes: Over 150 additional new photographs, the latest equipment and techniques for anchoring, introduces the new "Strands" principle for evaluating any anchor system, correct application of girth hitch masterpoint anchors and dispels old myths about shock loading and equalisation with new guidelines.
By John Long and Bob Gaines.
Card cover, 23.5cm x 19cm, 224 pages.
Published 2024 by Falcon Guides (4th Edition).
ISBN: 978-1-4930-7455-6.