The Mountain Skills Training Handbook

Book excerpt: With The Mountain Skills Training Handbook, two of the UK's most active instructors and mountaineers, Pete Hill and Stuart Johnston, offer readers: * A complete guide to all mountaineering techniques in a handy durable and portable format * An interactive learning style that enables a broad selection of users to relate to its content * Illustrations, hints and tips endorsed by the Association of Mountaineering Instructors and the Scottish Mountaineering Council Invaluable for both instructors and enthusiasts, the techniques, methods, and tips described and illustrated have derived from the authors' own experiences of delivering quality instruction at the highest level, and from studying and discussing good working practices from a broad range of other active top level practitioners.