Athlete • Speaker • Guide 
Athlete • Speaker • Guide Date: 11th November 2025
Only two years late, but I hope the result is worth it! Great John Price photographs, and everything I’ve learned and unlearned in the last 40-plus years of swinging, hooking, stein pulling and otherwise using and abusing ice tools globally! My hope is that this book is as useful to people as the first edition seemed to be. A lot has changed in the last 20 years, and this book is a brain dump of tactics, safety, movement, nutrition, training, and anything else that will help people enjoy climbing steep frozen water. Drills to improve efficient movement, how to understand what is a solid placement and what isn’t, why how frozen the ground is matters a lot more than current temperature for ice safety, new belay tactics, how not to get killed in an avalanche, and an encyclopedia of everything else I’ve learned as a climber, competitor, guide–and while making tons of mistakes you don’t have to make.
If you have questions please hit me up! Available at your local outdoor and book shops, which are my first choice for buying anything, to Amazon in the USA and Canada, to the Mountaineers, to Indigo, well, everywhere! A huge thanks to the Mountaineers for their immense patience and editing, John Price for his great imagery and fellowship in the suffering, and to everyone who helped teach me how to do this wonderful, crazy sport of ice climbing!
I’ll also be at the Ouray Ice Festival, Cody Festival, and Scarpa Ice Days in Italy if you’d like to meet up for a coffee, question or signed copy!
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