Military Mountaineering - TC 90-6-1 US Army Training Circular (1976 Civilian Reference Edition): Unabridged Military Manual on Historic Alpine ... Navigation, Mountain Equipment, and Safety

Book Synopsis: A Comprehensive Historic Handbook on Military Mountaineering and Alpine Navigation.

Build your library with this collectible unabridged, high-quality Civilian Reference Edition facsimile reissue of the official Military Mountaineering - TC 90-6-1 US Army Training Circular, 1976 release. This historic unclassified civilian reference edition manual features the principles and procedures of Army mountain travel, climbing, rescue, and safety, particularly on ice fields, glaciers, and snow-covered mountains.

Contents include discussions on historic military mountaineering principles, including terrain, climate, weather, acclimatization, conditioning, general principles for movement; basic mountaineering techniques, equipment, knots and rope, movement as a unit, finding alpine paths, setting up climbing paths and anchors, and historic programs for military training in mountaineering.

Learn how things were historically done in the military for personal enrichment and historical study by learning from the classic knowledge of the American soldier. Great for learning the history behind the ins-and-outs of principles military-style climbing, glacier travel, and mountaineering developed by the U.S. military. Not just for military personnel, this book is a great gift for outdoors enthusiasts, backpackers, campers, hikers, hunters, scouts, military history enthusiasts, and veterans!

A part of the Military Outdoors Skills Series.

This Doublebit Historic Edition reprint of Military Mountaineering TC 90-60-1 (1976) is professionally restored and presented from the original facsimile source with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Available in both paperback and hardcover, readers can enjoy this historic Civilian Reference Edition reissue for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge.

About the Doublebit Military Outdoors Skills Series

By publishing the Military Outdoors Skills Series, it is our goal at Doublebit Press to do what we can to preserve and share historic military works, such as army field manuals (the FM series), technical manuals (the TM series), Naval Training Publications, and other military books from other branches that hold timeless knowledge about outdoors life, navigation, and survival. Through remastered reprint editions of military handbooks and field manuals, we can preserve the knowledge of time-tested skills and institutional knowledge that was learned through hard lessons and training by the U.S. Military and our expert soldiers.