Reddit reviews Lightweight Alpine Climbing with Peter Croft (Climbing Specialist Series)
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Alpine climbing is about self reliance and no text book will make you a competent climber. We must always strive to learn all we can and make our own judgment calls.
Freedom of the Hills is a particularly awful book published by an organizations who's teachings have always been out of date. A friend and I were discussing how learning from it almost got him killed in his early days rock climbing.
http://www.amazon.com/Ways-Sky-Historical-American-Mountaineering/dp/0930410831 is a fascinating read focusing on what people have done in the mountains of North America and how they did it. The section on the mountaineers (publishers of Freedom of the Hills) is particularly interesting... they were founded by en ex military preacher who used to take large groups of Seattleites up mount rainier with a bugle and a team of "experienced climbers" following behind ready to tackle anyone who slipped.
Twight's book is okay but only if you want to climb like Twight. I simply don't enjoy living off power gu and nutritional supplements.
I think Peter Croft's short instructional book is amongst the best i've run across. It won't teach you everything but it contains a straight forward description of the simple systems and equipment used by one of the worlds master climbers:
http://www.amazon.com/Lightweight-Alpine-Climbing-Peter-Specialist/dp/0811728412/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269474063&sr=1-1