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Mountaineering requires extensive physical training, but few consider the mental training involved in climbing. Carlton Cooke, co-editor of Mountaineering: Training and Preparation (Human Kinetics, 2010), says mental training aids mountaineers’ concentration and enables them to adopt an analytical system of thinking rather than become emotionally reactive when faced with risk. Cooke suggests that mountaineers set specific safety goals before completing a climb.
For anyone undertaking an expedition at any level, logistics should be considered at the very onset of planning. Before it is possible to detail exactly how we accomplished our logistical plan, it is worthwhile to consider the role of logistics in enabling an expedition. For this reason, the logistics management and the overall expedition management team work closely together.
In cross-country skiing, upper-body strength and quadriceps strength have been found to be good determinants of race performance, whereas strength of knee flexors has not (Ng et al. A better alternative to increase relative strength and thus performance might be an increase in maximum strength rather than a decrease in body mass. Gains in maximum strength would in turn increase relative strength, provided the gains in muscle hypertrophy are minimal or of smaller magnitude compared with ...
Organise team meets aimed at gathering families and friends so that they become involved in at least the social network associated with the expedition. The importance of a quality core team and support from your family and close friends cannot be underestimated, but the power of influential supporters who are well positioned to gain sponsorship or cut through red tape is also crucial. I have been involved in a number of expeditions where gaining sponsorship was critical to getting ...
To understand how logistics fits into the expedition, it is necessary to discuss where it lies in the higher management functions. Logistics had a central role within the expedition hierarchy and for those who were delivering the details that would make the expedition work. For our expedition, we had two strategic bases—one in the United Kingdom, where we prepared and deployed all-out logistical effort, and one in Nepal, where all the logistical effort was consolidated in theatre.
In the two-component model of goal-directed aiming (Woodworth, 1899), the kinematic events during the initial portions of the movement reflect movement planning toward the target, while later kinematic events reflect the processing of sensory feedback during the corrective process. The location of peak velocity has been associated with the separation point between the initial, planned portion of the movement and the latter, feedback-based portion of the movement (e.g., Elliott, Binsted, & ...
