Rucksack Guide - Winter Mountaineering

Your essential handbook for the winter mountain, offering concise guidance and support for whatever situations you might find yourself in on the hill.

Inside you'll find technical skills tips and reminders on key techniques, advice on equipment from choosing the right crampons to ice climbing gear, navigation techniques to help in a range of weather conditions, and essential safety procedures to ensure the wellbeing of yourself, your party and others on the mountain. There's also practical guidance on what to do in emergency situations.

Colour-coded for easy reference, all information is presented in lists and tables, making it simple to understand in testing conditions. The Rucksack Guide series is adapted from Mountaineering: the essential skills for mountain walkers and climbers, the definitive handbook for hill walkers, climbers and mountaineers.