Climbing rock and ice: Learning the vertical dance

Rating:
Summary: Covers a lot of information, with poor illustrations.
Review: This book covers virtually every aspect of climbing, from rock gear to avalanche detection and rescue. While it's all inclusive, the drawings (there are no photos) are poor, a significant drawback in a book like this. A lot of the things that he writes about snow and ice get very technical, especially when he discusses snowpack, ice formations, etc., which, if you have the patience to read all the way through, are pretty interesting. I'd buy John Long's book from the How to Rock Climb series first hands down, but this one is a good book to have nonetheless.