Akreative: 5 books

There are plenty of books on the market that cover nuts and other passive gear, but non that focus completely on this important topic (the foundation of all climbing protection). Nutcraft covers standard climbing nuts, micro wires, hexs, tricams and exotica (knots, beaks and natural chocks), as well as how best to use them. This is a perfect book for a novice climber.

1000 Tips For Climbers is aimed at anyone who hangs off stuff, or just hangs around in the mountains. It's not an instruction book, but more a massive collection of all those little tips that make a real difference.  These tips are based on thirty years of climbing obsession, as well as nineteen...

Want to know how to carry out aid or artificial climbing? This book sets out the basics, including gear, setup and the basic technique that will work on most climbs. This book, like most of my instructional books, tries to cut down the information to just what you need to know, and is not padded...

A technical manual on how to place and remove pegs for rock climbers, alpinists and big wall climbing Who’s this book for? Well anyone who may need to place, use or remove a peg, meaning big wall climbers, winter climbers and alpinists. Someone once asked me how you went about placing...

Between them Andy Kirkpatrick and David Coley have racked up many,  many pitches on multi pitch rock; tackling alpine and big wall climbs all over the world. Unlike most instructional books, this one assumes that the reader already knows the basics of climbing, and so instead shares more advances...