Expert Tips

Advice and Wisdom from AAI's Guide Staff

Table of Contents

• Climbing Accident Reports: How (and Why) to Read Them
• Using Your Camera in the Mountains
• Rock Shoes: Board-Lasted vs. Slip-Lasted
• Climbing Styles: What Do the Different Terms Mean?
• Alpine Efficiency: Combining Speed and Safety
• Selecting Equipment for Waterfall Ice and Mixed Climbing
• Expedition Sled Rigging
• Mountain Weather: When to Go for the Summit
• How to Select an Alpine Rack
• Building Your Wilderness First Aid Kit
• Picture Savvy: Improving Your Climbing Photography
• Snow Locomotion: Should You Use Skis or Snowshoes?
• Mountain Preparedness: What Goes in a Guide's Pack?
• Footwear for Mountaineering and Climbing
• Footcare for Climbers: Stepping up to Happier Feet
• Practice Your Climbing Knots Online
• Glove Systems for Mountaineering and Alpine Climbing
• Avalanche Safety: How to Avoid Getting Buried
• AAI Debunks the Myth: "Once your gear gets wet, it stays wet!"

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CAUTION: Mountain travel of any kind carries significant risks to the participants, and travel on rock, snow, and ice carries inherent dangers that can lead to injury or death. Every situation is unique and calls for use of different techniques and different equipment. The choices of techniques and equipment must be made in the context and location where they will be applied, and those choices require a careful assessment by each climber. Therefore, AAI assumes no responsibility or liability for your use of the suggestions offered in the articles that follow or made by guides and staff. AAI offers tips to assist climbers in their efforts to expand their skills and the effectiveness of their climbing, but makes no assertion regarding the appropriateness of choosing a particular technique or piece of equipment in any given circumstance. You must make your own assessments and decisions, and you assume all risks in applying these techniques and using this equipment.