Falcon Guides' How to Rock Climb! by John Long provides you a thorough and best-selling instructional rock climbing book. This nuts-and-bolts guide serves as an introduction to rock climbing for beginners and helps intermediate climbers hone their knowledge of the sport. All the fundamentals, from ethics to getting up the climb, are here.

Thoroughly updated in this 5th Edition, with more than 400 color photographs and illustrations, covering all aspects of modern equipment, technique and training methods. Long provides the basics and distills the intricacies of modern technical rock climbing in all its diverse forms. He stresses safety and simplicity, and in this edition he puts special emphasis on setting protection and building reliable anchors.

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