Outdoor
You rely on your outdoor equipment and outdoor clothing to keep you alive and comfortable when you are pushing yourself in the outdoors, so you should arm yourself with the best knowledge and the most appropriate equipment.
We select our staff carefully for their knowledge and experience and they in turn select our product range which is what they would choose to use on the hills, underground or out in the backcountry. So you can be sure that our range is the best for you as well.
Come in store for more advice, for the best walking boot fitting service, or to have a rucksack, rockshoe, trail running shoe, race vest or walking shoe personally fitted by our experts.
If you can't find exactly what you are looking for or if its something a bit more unique or niche then please get in touch and we will make sure you get what you need.
Bartvan Raaij
5 + 6 Fontainebleau Part 1 - 4862 Straight ups in Central Fontainebleau
This Fontainebleau bouldering guide has the same set up as the well known 7 + 8 and gives a complete and clear overview of the medium to difficult boulder problems of Fontainebleau.
Ape Index
Boulder Britain - The Essential Guide To British Bouldering
Boulder Britain is a highly ambitious guidebook that sets out to cover all the best bouldering in England, Scotland and Wales. 2020 edition - due in shortly.
Climbers Club
Southern Sandstone and the Sea Cliffs of South-East England
The guide comprehensively covers all the popular areas including Harrison's Rocks, High Rocks and Bowles Rocks and some very exoteric chalk climbing!
Cicerone
The North Downs Way: A National Trail from Farnham to Dover
Guidebook to walking the North Downs Way National Trail, a 130 mile (208km) trail between Farnham and Dover, with an optional visit to Canterbury. Following the ancient Pilgrim's Way for much of the way, through pleasant countryside, this is one of the easier National Trails and the walk is described over 11 stages. With 1:25K OS map booklet.
Jingo Wobbly
Avignon Soleil - All Year Sunny Sport Climbing Around Mont Ventoux
The South of France has always been one of the most popular climbing destinations in Europe due to its excellent record of fine weather and superb limestone cliffs. The guide lists 52 cliffs of individual merit.
Pathfinder
South Devon & Dartmoor - Outstanding Circular Walks
Take on 28 beautiful walks across South Devon & Dartmoor with the OS Pathfinder Guidebooks, graded by length and ranging from 2 ½ to 10 miles. The routes range from extended strolls to longer hikes, offering something for all levels! This collection of walks covers the picturesque area of South Devon, plus the Southern part of Dartmoor National Park, an area acclaimed as the last great wilderness of Great Britain.
Baton Wicks Publications
Mont Blanc Massif 100 Finest Routes
The ultimate Mont Blanc Massif tick list! This new edition of this ever popular book reflects the changes in equipment, developments in grading and new problems created by glacial retreat (hastened by global warming). The 100 routes featured are still regarded as bench marks against which any aspiring alpinist can test themselves - a fantastic testament to its author and proof of its enduring relevance.
Climbers Club
Lundy
A fantastic, well researched and beautifully illustrated guidebook to the unique granite playground of Lundy Island, situated in the Bristol Channel.
Climbers Club
Symonds Yat
Definitive collection of books for anyone trad or sport climbing in the Forest of Dean or Wye Valley
Jmeditions
Mont Blanc 4810m - 5 Routes To The Summit
The Mont Blanc 4810m - 5 Routes to the Summit guidebook helps you to better understand the mountain, and gives you a choice among the five classic summit routes. These include the ordinary route through the Aiguille du Gouter, the Aiguille du Midi traverse, the historical route through the Grands Mulets, the normal Italian route and the Miage - Bionnassay - Mont Blanc traverse.
Climbers Club
North Devon & Cornwall
Perfect gift for any local Rock Climber, or if you want to visit the area. The long-awaited successor to Iain Peters’s 1988 guide (out of print since April 1996) was published in June 2000. This covers the popular and mainly conventional climbing at Baggy Point, the adventurous and far from conventional climbing on the Culm Coast (inc. Lower Sharpnose), and the serious adventure climbing on the Atlantic Coast of Cornwall (inc. Tintagel, Pentire, and Carn Gowla).
Vamos
Crag Climbs In Chamonix
Fancy a bit of R & R from the daily chore of trudging up snow slopes with the consistency of sugar or dodging collapsing seracs in the late afternoon sun - this is a new edition of the ever popular Chamonix Valley Cragging guide (published July 2015), describing all the sport climbing venues in the area.
Pathfinder
Cornwall - Outstanding Circular Walks
Cornwall's coastal path gives access to many of Britain's finest marine landscapes, and a great many of the walks in this guide utilise sections of the path, which is maintained to a high standard.
Rockfax
Deep Water
Deep Water is the first guidebook dedicated to documenting the major Deep Water Soloing areas around the world. Mike Robertson, was one of the first climbers to ditch the rope and security of standard protection and rely upon the safety-net of the sea. Mike has travelled far and wide, developing new routes and climbing old sea cliff lines in the Deep Water Solo style, and has published many articles and photographs in climbing magazines worldwide.
Rockfax
Northern England
This book covers the whole of the north east of England running in a north-easterly diagonal line from Yorkshire through the North York Moors and ending in Northumberland. The wide rolling hills, outcrops and quarries of Sandstone and Gritstone that pepper northern England have long been popular with the locals, though visitors are less common, except on the few better known cliffs.
Pathfinder
Cotswold - Outstanding Circular Walks
The combination of idyllic stone villages and small towns in gentle, rolling countryside make the Cotswolds quintessentially 'English'.