Rother

Safety and risk on rock and ice, volume 1

<p><strong>Experiences and results made from 25 years of safety research by the German Alpine Club. Published on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the DAV Safety Circle</strong></p> <p>How could this happen? - This is usually the first question that arises after a mountain accident. And this is exactly the question that Pit Schubert, head of the German Alpine Club's safety circle for 32 years, always tries to answer, and always with one goal in mind: to learn from accidents, to recognize the causes of accidents and to make them avoidable. Schubert has summarized the often tragic, but sometimes also hilarious experiences and results made from plenty of decades of alpine accident and safety research in this richly illustrated book, which was awarded the so-called "Alpine Oscar", the Dietmar Eybl Prize for Safety in the Mountains, in 1995 and was supplemented by a second volume in 2002.</p <p>Schubert reports on dramatic weather falls and thunderstorms, analyzes the safety of mountaineering equipment and its use in practice as well as the development of roping and belaying techniques, uses experiences and episodes to tell of the danger of crevasses or the hook situation in the mountains, repeatedly points out mistakes made in sport climbing and mountaineering and draws attention to dangerous situations that everyone, whether mountain hiker, mountaineer or climber, has probably experienced at some point. The many pointed caricatures by Georg Sojer underline the fact that there are always stories to make you smile.</p> <p <p>This book is a unique, incredibly exciting and instructive compendium made from the wealth of experience of the Safety Circle: one of the most important works on the alpine book market that no mountaineering library should be without. The fact that "Sicherheit und Risiko" is now in its eighth edition and has already been translated into several languages proves once again the gaps in information and knowledge that it is able to close, not least thanks to the careful incorporation of the latest safety knowledge into the current edition.</p> <p <p>Pit Schubert was head of the German Alpine Association's safety committee from its foundation in 1968 until his retirement at the end of 2000 and is president of the UIAA safety commission. The extreme mountaineer and climber worked as a mechanical engineer in the aerospace industry for a decade and a half. The high technical standards there prompted him to examine the outdated safety of mountaineering equipment at the end of the 1960s for potential improvements. With his decades of research work, he has shaped the development of mountaineering equipment and technology like no other and has played a decisive role in ensuring that the risky sport of mountaineering is safer today than ever before. </p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pit Schubert | Bergverlag Rother | 9th edition 2016 | 272 pages | 360 color and black-and-white illustrations, 145 sketches | format 16.3 x 23.0 cm | hardcover</span></p>