by CAMERON McPHERSON SMITH
copyright 1996
ALPINE CLIMBING SITUATIONS
Coping with Situations in a Two-Person Team
INTRODUCTION
Once you have the basic skills and equipment, and have properly considered the variables of your climb, you set off to distant mountains and enter the arena of adventure. In most cases the basic skills of rock, ice and snow ascent will suffice, up-graded in difficulty as your tastes are altered by experience and learning.
In the following chapters I discuss some common (and not so common) alpine climbing situations and suggests methods of dealing with them in a two-person team. The operative word is suggest. Equipment, mentality and conditions will dictate that you will have to improvise on occasion. Following the nature of life, the alpinist must adapt or die.
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