Introduction
Acknowledgements
Notes
Feedback and updates
This book sucks
1 Basics
Learning
Partnerships
Ropes
Passive protection
Active protection
Slings, quickdraws and cord
Karabiners
Knots
Leading
Harnesses
Building a rack on the cheap
Indoor climbing
Rock boots
Rock clothing
Route finding
2 Safety
Helmets
Descent
Dealing with heat
Loose rock
Rescue
Benightment
3 Big wall
Pegs
Jumaring
Hauling and haul bags
Speed climbing
Hand bolting
Hooks
Fifi hooks and connectors
4 Ice
Basics
Protection
Leading
5 Mixed
Leading
Gear
Footwork
6 Mountain
Crevasses
Clothing, boots and equipment
Sleeping bags and mats
Mountain bivvies
Navigation and storm tactics
Repair kit
Snow shelters
Food
First aid
Stoves, pans and kitchen stuff
Snow travel
Expedition and mountain tents
7 Training
Overcoming fear
Strength training
Food
Endurance training
8 Stuff
Don’t try this at home
Guiding principles of Andy Kirkpatrick
Choosing a guide or climbing course
Make your own kit
Photography and video
Sponsorship and media
Bodily functions
Trip packing and travel
9 Reading list
Andy Kirkpatrick is an award-winning author and climber. With a reputation for seeking out routes where the danger is real and the return questionable, he has pushed himself on some of the hardest walls and faces around the world. He was born and raised on a council estate in Hull, one of the UK’s flattest cities, and suffered from severe dyslexia which went undiagnosed until he was nineteen. Thriving on this apparent adversity, Andy transformed himself into one of the world’s most driven and accomplished climbers and an award-winning writer. In 2001 he undertook an eleven-day solo ascent of the Reticent Wall on El Capitan, Yosemite, one of the hardest solo climbs in the world. This climb was the central theme of his first book Psychovertical, which won the 2008 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. His second book, Cold Wars, won the 2012 Boardman Tasker Award. In 2014 he partnered BBC One’s The One Show presenter Alex Jones as she climbed Moonlight Buttress in Zion National Park in aid of Sport Relief. Unknown Pleasures: Collected Writing on Life, Death, Climbing and Everything in Between was published in 2018. Andy lives in Ireland with his wife Vanessa.
'1001 Climbing Tips is a refreshing take on the climbing guide genre. Irreverent, it has a laugh on virtually every page, but also some extremely useful advise and some points of genuine interest. The panel are grateful for tip 974 - "Never drink your own urine."' (Paul Pritchard, 2016 Banff Mountain Book Competition Jury); '1001 Climbing Tips had me laughing out loud in places, which I never thought possible for this genre of book. A tremendous resource that should be an essential addition to every climber's loo-library' (Ian Parnell, Climb magazine).
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