You'll get a few tips here on selecting good anchors for belays.

Belaying is a bedrock technique of climbing safety, a system of using a rope to stop a fall if one should occur.

Snow climbers choose from a range of techniques that provide belay protection to their ropemates.

Climbers have many ways to minimize the risk of avalanches and to increase their chances of survival if one hits.

Self-rescue is often the easiest and fastest crevasse rescue, regardless of party size.

While the climbers on top are busy going through the various steps leading toward final rescue, the fallen climber has work to do down below, beginning with the moment of recovery from the fall.

The depths of a great crevasse exhibit an awful beauty, both enticing and repellent.

Climbers have a number of ways to get safely across a field of crevasses.

The first step in safe glacier travel is figuring out where the crevasses are and picking a route through them.

All rescues are team rescues to some degree, because the fallen climber usually needs some help getting over the crevasse lip even in a self-rescue.

A crevasse rescue can be complicated by any number of unusual twists.

The first rule of safe glacier travel is very simple: rope up. Roping up is especially critical in areas above the firn line, where the glacier gets more snow every year than it loses to melting, making it likely that snow covers some crevasses.

As in other forms of roped climbing, ice climbers have the options of using running belays or fixed belays.

Ice climbers have several options for anchors to use in belaying or rappelling, including ice bollards, the Abalakov V-thread, and multiple ice screws.

Modern ice screws offer dependable security on ice climbs. However, there is some sacrifice of safety in the time and energy it takes to put them in place.