I’m not quite sure what I expected from Medicine for Mountaineering when I read the synopsis online. Perhaps a field guide to basic first aid in the mountains that you could stuff in your pack. When the book arrived in the mail, I was surprised to see more of a textbook than a field guide….
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Review: Snowboarding – Learning to Ride from All-Mountain to Park and Pipe
As one could guess by the title, Snowboarding: Learning to Ride from All-Mountain to Park and Pipe is a book aimed towards newbies hoping to pick up the sport for the first time. While I wouldn’t traditionally think of reading a book to learn how to snowboard, Liam Gallagher has partially changed that thought.
The Best Mountaineering Books
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills Freedom of the Hills (FOTH) has become what you could call the mountaineering bible. FOTH includes information on just about every type of climbing one could do, and will give you a good basic overview of how mountaineering is done. That said, the style of mountaineering taught in FOTH…