Glacier Mountaineering, an Illustrated Guide to Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue

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Summary: Awesome Book
Review: As a beginner/intermediate climber this book covers all the necessary glacier-related issues. The pictures are great and help make complex concepts very easy to understand. Much better than the traditional texts (e.g. Freedom of the Hills) for Glacier Travel.

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Summary: Awesome Book
Review: Great book with awesome pictures that help explain complex concepts about glacier travel. I'd buy this before Freedom of the Hills.

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Summary: Great book to "learn the ropes"
Review: This was a great book, short, concise and extremely descriptive. A lot of the descriptions for a knot or setup of a pulley system is covered in Freedom of the Hills and other books. But in any other book, you will be disappointed to only find a description, leaving the reader wondering...hmm..Now where would I use this? In the Illustrated Guide, not only do they provide great drawings and demonstrations for everything mentioned, but they also talk about when, and why. After reading this book I have felt so much more confidence in my level of knowledge about glacier travel. It's the perfect book for those wishing to learn or to teach others.