Climbing

Translated from the highly acclaimed French guidebook, Mountaineering Around Chamonix is an essential guide that provides an excellent introduction to the Alps for British hill walkers venturing into this stunning region for the first time. Packed with valuable information, it covers everything from essential equipment to basic alpine techniques, ensuring you're well-prepared for your adventure. This compact yet comprehensive guide is a long-awaited resource for anyone eager to explore the majestic Alps.

Idea Montagna's "4000m Peaks of the Alps - (Normal and Classic Routes)" is a comprehensive guidebook that covers all 82 official four-thousanders in the Alps, detailing normal routes, classic variants and ski-mountaineering routes. It includes technical notes on safety, conditions, approach, hut information, gear and maps. The guide is in full colour, featuring easy-to-follow topos and route descriptions, as well as approach information, all in English across its 416 pages.

Cottongrass Books'' - "Lancashire Bouldering" is a comprehensive guidebook dedicated to bouldering in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, with a few spots in Yorkshire. It covers 47 crags across three areas: Bowland, The Quarries, and The East Lancs Moors.

"Versante Sud Adam Ondra - The Climber" is Adam's climbing biography, written alongside Pietro Dal Pra in perfect harmony with Adam. Through memorable ascents and key milestones in Adam's career, the book reveals the culture, inclinations, tastes, and lifestyle of this remarkable climber. Born from a deep, lasting friendship, this biography is not a detached account but a vibrant, passionate story told together, pulsating with a love for climbing.

The Climbers Club Pen Llyn guidebook offers stunning photography, detailed maps, accurate topos, and comprehensive route descriptions, making it easy to use and ensuring an accessible climbing experience. With nearly 700 routes, Pen Llyn provides unmatched variety: from granite outcrops and towering sea cliffs to the impressive walls of Cilan Head and Craig Dorys, suntrap zawns of Trwyn Maen Melyn, and the quarries of Tyyn Tywyn. Featuring both new trad and sport climbs, there's something for everyone.

"A Light Through the Cracks - A Climber's Story" is renowned rock climber Beth Rodden's inspiring memoir about overcoming trauma, conquering fear, and embracing healing. At twenty, Beth is an elite climber when a trip to Kyrgyzstan turns nightmarish. She, her boyfriend, and two others are kidnapped by rebels. After six harrowing days, they escape, but Beth's battle with fear continues at home, driving her to push past her limits.

The Oxford Alpine Club Sport Climbs in England & Wales: Volume 2 South covers more than 4600 climbs across areas such as Carmarthen, the Gower peninsula, Swansea Bay, Portland and Cornwall to name a few. It includes full photo-topos, as well as full access and approach information and detailed maps throughout. Spanning no fewer than 20 geographic areas in full detail, this guide is an ideal addition to any climber's guidebook library.

Mid Wales Climbing South Snowdonia Bouldering is a comprehensive guidebook that covers all the bouldering in South Snowdonia in areas such as Blaenau-Ffestiniog, Bala, Harlech, Dolgellau and Aberystwyth. Almost all of the boulder problems listed in this guide are forthcoming spots and previously undocumented. All the boulder problems are shown on colour photo topos along with a description, and the vast majority are also shown on boulder maps. For each area there are clear approach maps and information.

Vertebrate Publishing Tides - A Climber's Voyage is the award-winning follow-up to Nick Bullock's critically acclaimed debut book Echoes. It is a gripping memoir that captures the very essence of what it means to dedicate one's life to climbing.

The Great Western Rock Mendip Outcrops is the new Great Western Rock, 400 page guidebook to the trad climbing in the Mendip Hills (not including Cheddar Gorge).

Great Western Rock Bristol Sport is the long awaited 500 page guidebook to the huge upsurge of sport climbing that has happened in the Bristol region. There are lots to discover within the pages of this book as considerable development has taken place in recent years.

On Sight Publishing North Wales Limestone - The Definitive Guide (2023) covers all the climbing along the North Wales coastal area - from Benllech in the west to The Devil?s Gorge (near Mold) in the east, including the popular Great and Little Ormes of Llandudno. The book details nearly 2,000 routes, 600 more than the 2014 edition. The majority of the routes are well equipped sport climbs, with the exception of the nationally significant trad venue of Craig y Forwyn.

Bartvan Raaij 5 + 6 Greater Fontainebleau - 5286 Straight Ups in Greater Fontainebleau is a climbing guide book in the greater Fontainebleau area.

British Mountaineering Council Peak Limestone South is a blockbuster of a book that brings to life the magnificent crags of the south Peak. Sport climbing, trad climbing, bouldering, quarries, tors and caves run through its pages endlessly. Crags you know, crags you don’t; old friends and new discoveries; mighty cliffs and mini craglets.

Panico Alpinverlag Climbing in Oman is a comprehensive climbing guidebook that covers sport climbing routes, multi-pitches, deep water soloing and via ferrata climbs in across Oman. The author, Jakob Oberhauser knows all the great climbing destinations in Oman, many of which are published for the first time in this book. The book has 180 pages and 141 topo maps, it covers 26 areas and 104 sectors. Brilliant photos tempt the reader to visit this exotic climbing destination on the tip of the Arabian peninsula.

Climbers Club Culm & Baggy is an extensively researched guide that's been put together by local activists with many years of rock climbing experience in the region. The book features detailed phototopos and some fine action shots. The best of the boulder problems in the area are included.