num_pages: 128
description: Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue is a comprehensive course in understanding glaciers, crossing them, avoiding crevasses, and rescuing crevasse victims. Topics covered how glaciers form and how crevasses develop; basic principles of glacier travel; routefinding; knots and harnesses; holding a fall; rescue techniques, including self-belay and what a victim should do; and glacier skiing and sled hauling. New sidebars feature descriptions of accidents and near-accidents to emphasize the importance of the techniques presented. With b&amp;w photos and illustrations.
language: English
title: Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue
titlecomplete: Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue
genres: Mountaineering, Outdoors, Climbing
ratings_count: 74
publisher: Diadem Books