★State-of-the-art mountain-risk management thinking; covers every hazard from trip planning to self-rescue, giving readers a systematic grasp of alpine safety.
★Packed with photos, diagrams, and step-by-step visuals that turn complex skills into easy, retainable know-how.

Through hundreds of photographs and clear illustrations, this manual demystifies the hidden dangers of the hills and shows exactly how to avoid them—or escape when the worst happens. First released in 2020, the book has been fully updated with the latest rescue data, gear innovations, and weather-forecast tools, and is now re-issued as the definitive new edition.

Chapter 1 Planning
Route-selection tricks, proper climb-registration, must-carry emergency gear, reading micro-forecasts, buying the right mountain insurance, and using modern trip-planner apps.

Chapter 2 Snow-Free Season Risk Management
Coping with getting lost, tricky passages, energy-saving footwork, heat-stroke, hypothermia, altitude sickness, knee & lower-back pain, sudden weather changes, volcanic terrain, and solo-travel protocols.

Chapter 3 Emergency Shelter
When to decide you need shelter, how to pick the safest site, and hands-on construction of fast, wind-stable bivouacs.

Chapter 4 Dangerous Wildlife
Black bear, wild boar, pit-viper, giant hornet, horsefly, tick—behavior patterns and proven deterrent tactics.

Chapter 5 Self-Rescue
Field-first-aid essentials: airway, bleeding, fractures, evacuation splints, signaling for help when you are the only medic on the mountain.

Chapter 6 Snowfield Risk & Self-Rescue
Avalanche recognition, white-out navigation, ice-axe self-arrest, building snow caves, treating frostbite, and emergency descent routes in winter terrain.