num_pages: 92
description: This annual investigative handbook offers detailed reports of more than 60 climbing accidents that occurred in 1997. Analyses of what went wrong in each situation give experienced and beginning mountaineers the opportunity to learn from other climbers' mistakes. From inadequate protection clothing or equipment to inexperience poor judgment or simple ignorance the errors recorded in this book are invaluable safety lessons for all climbers.
language: English
title: Accidents in North American Mountaineering 1998
publisher: Amer Alpine Club