Books and Maps
Pathfinder
Lake District - Outstanding Circular Walks
Discover 28 outstanding circular walks in the Lake District National Park, graded by length and ranging from 3 to 10 miles with easy-to-follow route descriptions.
Pathfinder Guides
Navigation Skills for Walkers - Map Reading, Compass and GPS
Improve your walking safety and make more of your time outdoors with this concise guidebook for walkers, full of step-by-step guides with clear illustrations. Navigation Skills for Walkers will help you grow your skills in map reading, using a compass, and using a GP device or app. It focuses on using OS mapping, but most of the skills and techniques can be used for any map.
Rockfax
Snowdonia: Mountain Walks and Scrambles
All the best mountain walks and scrambles in and around the Snowdonia area. The coverage is done in full Rockfax style with big overview photos, precise route descriptions and detailed maps. It also has an extensive introduction covering some of the basic skills required for scrambling, route planning and navigation.
Climbers Club
South Wales Rock
From the Brecon Beacons through The Valleys and onto the Coast by Matt Woodfield, Alan Rosier, Roy Thomas and Tim Hoddy - This guide contains 1500 of the best routes in South Wales. With Limestone escarpments overlooking the mountains, hidden Sandstone quarries for your first steps climbing outside or projecting hard classics, and sea cliffs offering either a big adventure or pleasant day out, it’s hard to beat the variety of climbing on offer.
Ground Up
North Wales Bouldering Volume 1 Mountain Crags
This third edition is the first volume of a two-volume set to North Wales: The Mountain Crags. The bouldering scene in North Wales is now more vibrant and energised than it has ever been. Each year exciting new crags are revealed and the development of existing crags is greatly expanded.
Falcon Guides
Rock Climber's Exercise Guide - Training for Strength, Power, Endurance Flexibility and Stamina
The only exercise guide a rock climber will ever need! Rock climbing is one of the most physically challenging sports, testing strength, endurance, flexibility, and stamina. To improve in the sport, climbers must build and maintain each of these assets. Written by veteran climber and performance coach, Eric Hörst, The Rock Climber's Exercise Guide provides climbers of all ages and experience with the knowledge and tools to design and follow a comprehensive, personalized exercise program. Enhance your skills, maximize your potential, and become the best climber you can be!
Pathfinder Guides
Map Reading Skills
This guide includes navigation by compass. Written by Terry Marsh, a highly experienced fell walker and outdoors writer, this guide is fully illustrated with maps, diagrams and photographs.
Harvey Maps
Superwalker XT30
The Harvey's Superwalker map set includes detailed 1:25,000 scale maps of the UK and 1:30.000 scale maps of Ireland that are exceptionally clear and easy to read. These maps are also 100% waterproof, tough and light.
Scottish Mountaineering Club
The Outer Hebrides
The comprehensive SMC Outer Hebrides climbers' guide covers adventurous sea cliff climbing.
Falcon Guides
Climbing: From Gym To Rock
Climbing: From Gym to Rock is a pocket-size instructional climbing book with the backing of the American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA) that focuses on getting indoor climbers outdoors. The book will feature information on environment and terrain, types of crag, best practices, and more. Photos will be throughout.
Great Western Rock
The Gilwern Area
The Gilwern Area is the first, fully comprehensive guide to the wealth of sport climbing and bouldering on the hillsides straddling the village of Gilwern, near Abergavenny. Gilwern Hill has been popular for a long time with climbers from Bristol, Gloucestershire and South Wales, the best of its climbing on top of the mountain with a huge panorama.
Cockerel
Gower New Developments 2020
A South Wales Climbing Wiki Supplement covering new trad climbs since the Gower New Developments 2020, inc. Tear's Point, Thurba East Gully, Red Chamber, Black Hole Crag and Holy's Wash Buttress.
Cicerone
Walking The Cambrian Way: Classic Wales Mountain Trek - south to north from Cardiff to Conwy
Guidebook to the Cambrian Way, a challenging three-week mountain trek through Wales from Cardiff to Conwy. The 470km route is presented from south to north. Often sticking to long, beautiful ridgelines, it crosses wild and rugged terrain and visits many of Wales's highest mountains, including Snowdon.
Seren
Walking Cardiff
Join Peter Finch and John Briggs on twenty walks around Cardiff, the bustling capital of Wales. Together they visit the new and the ancient, the difficult, the undiscovered, the lesser-known, the artistic, the entertaining, the quirky and the unexpected.
Cicerone
Walking The Wales Coast Path - Llwybr Arfordir Cymru
A single guidebook to walking the whole Wales Coast Path - 1400km (870 miles) the length of Wales from Chester to Chepstow, including Anglesey, described in 57 stages. The route passes through the Snowdonia and Pembrokeshire National Parks and many AONBs and can be linked with the Offa's Dyke Path for a complete circuit of Wales.
Cicerone
Walking in Carmarthenshire 30 day walks exploring the mountains, valleys and coastline
Guidebook of 30 day walks in Carmarthenshire, south west Wales. Ranging from 2 to 10 miles in length and suitable for walkers of all abilities, the routes introduce the varied walking on offer in this county, including parts of the Brecon Beacons and the Cambrian Mountains. Most are circular, but four are linear walks along sections of the Carmarthenshire Coast Path.