Books and Maps

Take on 28 beautiful walks across South Devon & Dartmoor with the OS Pathfinder Guidebooks, graded by length and ranging from 2 ½ to 10 miles. The routes range from extended strolls to longer hikes, offering something for all levels! This collection of walks covers the picturesque area of South Devon, plus the Southern part of Dartmoor National Park, an area acclaimed as the last great wilderness of Great Britain.

The Wye Valley and the Forest of Dean are linked both by geography the forest forming the eastern rim of the valley for much of the Wye's lower reaches and by history, since they share a common heritage as a border between England and Wales.

This is a complete introduction to Alpine mountaineering. If you are planning your first trip to the Alps or anxious to improve on your performance on previous trips, you need this book. Everything you need to know is here and none of the issues are ducked. From dealing with hut guardians to moving roped together.

A book for anyone wanting to have fun climbing.

Selected climbing guide to Gower Peninsula in South Wales. Photo Topos, inspirational photos, bouldering and a mix of sport routes and trad climbs all in a stunningly beautiful setting.Classic Seacliff Trad Climbs.

The Pesda Press Nature of the Brecon Beacons guide will help you identify many of the animals, insects, rocks and plants you are likely to encounter along your adventures.

This book explains to the hillwalker, in easy to understand but accurate terms, how geology has shaped the landscape of South Wales. A selection of seventeen guided walks are used to illustrate this in terms of what can be seen on the ground.

Tarragona Climbs is a brand new selective guidebook to the one of the finest sport climbing venues in Europe: the Catalan province of Tarragona in Northwest Spain.

Chamonix is the most famous climbing area in Europe. Nowhere else has as much quality rock, spectacular peaks and varied mountaineering history. For most climbers, a trip to Chamonix is an integral part of their climbing and mountaineering career. When there you want to try everything; perfect granite rock routes, magnificent long ridges, intimidating north faces and then also have some valley sport climbing for the ‘rest days’. Or maybe you just want to tick Mont Blanc.

This book covers the fine area of quality limestone crags and quarries lining the Eglwyseg Valley, situated to the north of Llangollen, and some delightful quarries and smaller edges in the near-by area.

Deep Water is the first guidebook dedicated to documenting the major Deep Water Soloing areas around the world. Mike Robertson, was one of the first climbers to ditch the rope and security of standard protection and rely upon the safety-net of the sea. Mike has travelled far and wide, developing new routes and climbing old sea cliff lines in the Deep Water Solo style, and has published many articles and photographs in climbing magazines worldwide.

The Rockfax Dorset guidebook covers sport and trad climbing accross Portland, Swanage and Lulworth along the Dorset coast. These are some of the most popular sport climbing areas in the country and have a huge number of routes across the grades and offer great appeal to climbers of all abilities.

Dorset has emerged as a major bouldering area in recent years thanks to the hard work of a bunch of diligent locals who have combed the coastline seeking out every block, problem and traverse. Chief amongst these developers has been Ben Stokes who has documented the developments in two popular Rockfax PDF MiniGuides. Ben put everything together into a much larger Rockfax book, adding loads of new areas and expanding the existing coverage.

This guide covers one of the most popular climbing areas in Britain. Major crags include, Stanage, Burbadge and Millstone.

The first English language climbing guide covering a wide range of sport climbing venues in the Haute Provence area of southeast France including Cease, Orpierre and Buoux, to name but a few.