Outdoor Leadership

The best-selling instructional text for new and intermediate climbers for more than half a century. New edition--fully updated techniques and all-new illustrations - researched and written by a team of expert climbers.

Rock climbing is an exhilarating and spectacular sport that is attracting more people than ever before. This book is written for those climbers starting out on their instructing career. It contains the ideas and information that will smooth their path into the rewarding world of instructing and guiding.

Increase your strength, power, skill, and focus to maximize your climbing performance. Drawing on the latest climbing research, this third edition of the international best-selling Training for Climbing presents a comprehensive, evidence-based program for improving climbing performance.

Explains how to get started and advance your skills at the local climbing gym. Key exercises reinforce fundamental skills, illustrated in sequential photos.

This climbing guidebook to the Grampians has several of the area's most popular multi-pitch trad crags including Grey Green Walls, Central Buttress, Asses Ears and the ever popular single pitch beginner trad nirvana of Summerday Valley. In total, the book covers 61 crags and details over 1200 routes (both sport and trad).