With a recent Mountaineers publication of Climbing Self-Rescue: Essential Skills, Technical Tips & Improvised Solutions, Ian Nicholson introduces climbers to skills and techniques vital for life-saving feats while climbing.
Join us at Ascent Outdoors for a limited-capacity demonstration of the skills in this book as well as an opportunity to chat with Ian and get your copy of his book signed.
The world of climbing self-rescue is ever-changing, but the constant is that techniques need to be something that climbers can use in the real world with the gear they already have with them. Elite climber Ian Nicholson has written Climbing Self-Rescue with this in mind, offering technical systems that follow patterns that are easy to remember and that can be applied to solve a wide range of problems. This lavishly illustrated guide teaches the skills a climbing team needs to execute a successful technical rescue on its own.
Written for climbers with experience on multi-pitch routes, Climbing Self-Rescue addresses key skills including escaping the belay, lowering a climber, dealing with a stuck rope, improvising ascenders and using aid-climbing techniques in rescues, rescuing an injured leader, and so much more!
Ian Nicholson is an IFMGA/UIAGM mountain guide and has been guiding around the world for nearly 20 years. He is particularly passionate about self-rescue and has earned two Denali Pro Pin Awards for helping to save other climbers. Ian works on the National Instructor Team for both the AMGA and AIARE and is the author of SUPERTOPO: Washington Pass Climbing, as well as a regular contributor to OutdoorGearLab.com and WildSnow.com
Dontations will be made to The Seattle Mountaineers Scholarship Fund for Climbing courses.
