Gym Climbing: Maximizing Your Indoor Experience (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert)

By Matt Burbach

Book Overview

CLICK HERE to download the chapter on "Lead Climbing" from Gym Climbing * Explains how to get started and advance your skills at the local climbing gym * Author is a pioneering instructor and gym... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898867428
• ISBN13: 9780898867428
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A good book

This book is an excellent source of information about every aspect of gym climbing. I found every chapter of it extremely helpful. The best part is that it is not a long boring book. Every bit of it contains information. The pictures help a lot.

recommendable

It is a recommendable book if you want to learn about climbing, lots of pictures that show precisely how to proceed. The best book I found so far.

If you climb you need this book!

Matt Burbach (a.k.a. M@ at Urban Climber Magazine) continues to impress with this instructive and comprehensive book on gym climbing. The photos and descriptions of everything from technique to learning how to lead are really useful for someone like me who is beginning to climb hard routes more consistently. I don't climb outdoors very often, so the other books discussing climbing on "real" rock don't really give me the information I need to improve at my local rock gym. Burbach's book is different. It is specifically geared toward "urban climbers" like myself who climb in gyms and want to improve. I recommend this book to people wanting to maximize their indoor experience.