Colorado-based Bisharat (Rock and Ice magazine) is an accomplished all-around climber who has achieved difficult sport, trad, bouldering, big-wall, mixed, ice and alpine ascents around the world. His text explores the new face of sport climbing that has emerged over the past decade. Illustrated with b&w photographs, the text takes readers through all the basics for getting started--buying and using gear, hand and foot holds and moves, relaxing, overcoming the fear of falling, use of "belaying" to catching a falling climber, picking a route and working it--as well as the cutting-edge strategies hat climbers use to redpoint routes at their physical and mental limits. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)