Climbing: From Gym to Rock (How to Climb)

I’ve had a small amount of experience outdoors and have been climbing in the gym for years. I hoped this book would help me fill in technical gaps in my knowledge so I could feel safe outdoors. While it lays out a general framework/ way of thinking about problems of the outdoors, if you have any climbing experience or general knowledge of outdoor climbing (for example what a top rope is and the qualities of a good anchor) then this book is useless for you. It doesn’t dive into the detail I hoped for such as how to actually build an anchor and pros and cons, but rather just lays out how to think about building an anchor. Furthermore, the book explicitly says it only pays attention to toproping outdoors and provides little, if any information regarding other forms of climbing outdoors.

Excellent, comprehensive book. I highly recommend it for those who started rock climbing in a gym and now want to switch to real outdoor climbs.

Great little book. Bought as a stocking stuffer. Husband seemed to have a lot of interest flipping through it.

This book was “ok”. I thought it would have more useful information. The knots edition of this book was excellent and expected this to be the same.

This book, along with another rock climbing one I purchased, is a Christmas gift to my niece who loves to do wall climbing in gyms. She has been doing this for several years. I can see her evolving into rock climbing in nature and thought she could learn more about that type of climbing.

I thought this was a great mini-overview of what to expect in a gym-to-outdoors transition. Will definitely need more literature on the subject but this was a great starter guide to run over the basics.

It deeply explains the ways to transfer from gym to rock. It prepares you with the mindset, supplies, and more.