Climbing From Toproping to Sport

This handy, pocket-size manual provides easy-to-understand, step-by-step guidance to climbers transitioning from basic rock climbing to sport climbing, which involves scaling larger, more challenging rock walls that have fixed anchors.

Nate Fitch is a faculty member of the outdoor education department at the University of New Hampshire where he teaches climbing classes. He is active with the AMGA as a climbing wall instructor provider and a single pitch instructor assistant provider.

Ron Funderburke is an AMGA-certified rock guide and the national discipline coordinator for the AMGA single pitch instructor program. He serves as the head guide at Fox Mountain Guides and Climbing School and is a senior climbing specialist at the North Carolina Outward Bound School. Ron was a contributing editor on Rock Climbing: The AMGA Single Pitch Manual (Falcon).