Climbing Anchors

Climbing Anchors provides the most comprehensive and easy to understand information on how to place protection and construct secure anchors to safeguard your life. John Lond, the author of the definitive instructional manual How To Rock Climb! applies the same clear, concise, and entertaining prose to this updated edition, illustrated with more than 100 photos gby professional climbing guide and instructor Bob Gaines.

Learn how to place and configure solid, secure anchors in a variety of real world climbing situations and see the pros and cons of many options. Natural anchors, passive chocks, mechanical chocks, fixed gear, knowts, belay anchors, toprope anchors, and rappel anchors are all discussed in detail.

Tests conducted specifically for this book detail the true performance parameters of the cordelette, sliding X, and equalette, as opposed to the ‚traditional wisdom‘ that guided choices in the past – and was often wrong.

This completely revised and updated edition with all new color photos brings together in a single volume the anchoring systems most popular among climbers. Most climbers today learn their craft on artificial climbing walls and on sport routes with fixed protection.

Their first efforts to lead on trad routes often come as a rude shock–they find that they haven’t the skills and training to safeguard the climb or to set up solid belays. This new edition of Climbing Anchors is the climber’s complete and authoritative source of information on protection, from fundamental knots to sophisticated rigging and
equalizing skills.

4th edition: May 2024