Description
Every adventure guide eventually stands at a trailhead, or a put-in, or the top of a pitch, watching a group that is now entirely their responsibility. Everything that happens next is on them.
Adventure Guides at the Fireside is what nobody hands you at that moment. It's the conversation a veteran guide would have with you if you sat down together after the trip — not a qualification manual, not a legal reference, not a list of rules, but the honest, hard-won thinking behind the decisions that actually matter in the field.
Drawing on over fifty years in the adventure industry — including a career in emergency services before guiding — the author walks through the full span of a guiding career: reading groups, leading under pressure, managing real risk, handling incidents when things go wrong, and building a career that lasts. The lessons are illustrated with real scenarios across the full spread of adventure disciplines, from outdoor centre activities to extreme mountaineering, paddling, and everything between.
This is a book for anyone who leads other people into places where the stakes are real — guides, instructors, expedition leaders, and outdoor professionals who want the judgement a course can't teach.
Details
Publisher - BookVAULT Publishing
Language - English
Perfect Bound
Contributors
By author
Andrew Friedemann
Published Date - 2026-11-12
ISBN - 9781808979699
Dimensions - 29.7 x 21 x 1.7 cm
Page Count - 379
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