Products tagged with 'climbing book'

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.

The hidden away gem boulder problems, away from the crowds of people, deep in the forest.

This is the definitive rock climbing guidebook describing the gritstone routes and bouldering around Ilkley and Widdop in southwestern Yorkshire (to the west of Leeds). The guidebook covers over 75 gritstone crags including Ilkley, Barden Moor, Widdop and Calderdale, Earl Crag and Hawkcliffe, Shipley Glen and Baildon Bank, Woodhouse Scar and the Kirklees crags of Pen-y-ghent and Sharphaw.

Following the journey of Eric Jones. The first British man to solo the Eiger North Face one of the greatest challenges in the climbing world

The second edition of rock climbing in the South West of England. he second volume covers the Granite of West Penwith, Dartmoor, the Channel Islands and Lundy - The guide also covers the North Cornish and North Devon coasts.

One Day As A Tiger is John Porter’s revelatory and poignant memoir of his friend Alex MacIntyre, it shows mountaineering at its extraordinary best and tragic worst – and draws an unforgettable picture of a dazzling, argumentative and exuberant legend.

A fully researched and rewritten full colour guidebook to this most hallowed of cliffs. Instead of the usual Historical, the extended Ascents Anthology has been expanded further with historical commentary by the author and numerous quotes and opinions on the routes from a number of Cloggy enthusiasts.

A guidebook of over 230 alpine routes detailing all of the noteworthy routes in the area from beginner level to routes for seasoned alpinists. A Bible for alpine mountaineering. Paperback revised info on many routes and grades.