This guide for walkers and climbers encompasses all the skills and knowledge needed for safe and enjoyable expeditions and offers advise on preparation, footwear, camping equipment, food and details of navigation skills. It also sets out the situations that lend hillwalking its specially challenging status such as benightment, stonefall and getting lost with suggestions on what to do in the event. Included is a full guide to first aid that covers everything from limb injury to mountain hypothermia.
- ISBN10 1841194891
- ISBN13 9781841194899
- Publish Date 30 May 2002
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 6 September 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Constable
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 608
- Language English