Panico Alpinverlag

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.

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.