Glacier Travel & Crevasse Rescue 2E MOES

Includes expanded and updated information on technical improvements and safety
New sidebars provide extra lessons on techniques presented
Larger format with more photographs

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.

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Climbing magazine

Andy Selters packs in more solid information on this subject than you can find in any other instructional handbook ... No matter what your level of alpine expertise, get a copy of Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue before setting foot on the glacier.

Rock & Ice magazine

Many climbers have never experienced the terror of plunging into a lurking, black void beneath the sparkling snows. Those who do ... should pray both they and their partner have read and memorized every page of Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue.
Mountain magazine
While many mountaineering works have elements of this book in them, none that I have read come close to covering the subject so completely and concisely.