Products tagged with 'climbing guidebook'

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.

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.

Fell & Rock Climbing Club Duddon & Wrynose is a climbing guide that covers both the Duddon Valley and the popular crags accessed from Wrynose Pass. It gives clear route descriptions and generous sized photo-diagrams, showing the lines of the routes. There are also many great action shots included in the guide and there’s the usual supplementary information on parking and camping, plus a comprehensive crag selector.

The Frankenjura is a big range of limestone crags in South-East Germany, north and east of Nurnberg. Some of the hardest bolted sport climbs in the world are located here – but there is a good range of other grades too. This topo guide is in German, but with an English introduction, and excellent clear maps and diagrams, it should be reasonably comprehensible to even the most partisan Brit. Grades are UIAA but a conversion chart is also included.

The Panico Alpinverlag Frankenjura Band 2 Guide is the second guide in this collection and features even more sport climbing routes of this popular German destination. Together with volume 1, there are well over 1100 pages of information on the 12,600 routes in the northern Franconian Jura. Volume 2 features 6500 routes across a grade spread of grades - the guides are in German but with an English introduction and contain easy to follow topos and loads of colour photographs.

Cheddar Gorge is one of the most important climbing sites in the south of Britain and its restoration project has enabled many more climbs to become accessible when compared to the previous winter-only arrangements. This guidebook provides easy-to-use topos and descriptions of the best and most widely accessible climbing routes in Cheddar Gorge, plus all the vital access information, the relevant appendices and contextual documents.

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.

The Steep Stone Central Wales, guide to Climbing and Bouldering in Elenydd covers areas for bouldering, sea level traversing and winter climbs. It features full colour images and useful maps to make using the guide easy. Features 620 routes and 240 boulder problems, from mountain crags to sea cliffs in areas from Pembrokeshire all the way to Cader Idris.