Books and Maps

Climbing: Training For Peak Performance Instruction Book is aimed to improve your climbing grade, a perfect gift for those keen climbers!

This is the definitive handbook for all those involved with climbing. A reference tool for those who wish to instruct, coach & lead others. Six sections covering: Getting Moving (indoors & outdoors); Basics of Ropework; The Climbing Environment; Single & Multi-pitch Climbing; Descending from Climbs & Solving Problems as well as Mountain Scrambling.

A book for anyone wanting to have fun climbing.

Winter Climbing+ is the third instructional book from Rockfax. Written by two of the UK’s most respected winter climbers, Winter Climbing+ takes a positive approach to the climbing discipline that has traditionally had its delights obscured by its dangers.

For this edition, the climbs of the South West have been split into two volumes; this, the first, covering areas close to centres of population such as the Avon Gorge, Wye Valley. and Dorset.

A dedicated Guide book to the awsome limestone climbing to be found in the Peak District. This 2012 edition of Peak Limestone covers all the best limestone crags from Stoney in the north down to High Tor in the south.

Selected climbing guide to Gower Peninsula in South Wales. Photo Topos, inspirational photos, bouldering and a mix of sport routes and trad climbs all in a stunningly beautiful setting.Classic Seacliff Trad Climbs.

This book covers a large area west of Snowdon, including Llechog, Castell Cidwm, Craig y Bera, Cwm Silyn, Cwm Pennant, and Moel Hebog. Climbs range from Diffs that can be climbed in boots and take you to summit ridges to the more recent mega-routes of Pat Littlejohn and others on Cidwm and Craig y Bera.

Once regarded as one of the most important cliffs in North Wales, Lliwedd has in more recent times languished well down the list of “must visit” crags. However a wave of exploration in the 1990s not repeated since the early part of the 20th Century now means that the cliff can boast modern climbs up to E4. The early history of climbing on Lliwedd is inextricably linked with some of the best climbers of their age (The Abraham brothers, Mallory,Winthrop Young) and with the early history of the Climbers’ Club.

Guidebook of the best ridge walks in Snowdonia. Routes from 8km to 60km for competent and experienced walkers. Walks include ridges in the Carneddau, Glyders and Tryfan, Snowdon range, Crib Coch, Nantlle, Rhinogs, Arans, Cader Idris and a Snowdonia 3000er traverse.

The Wye Valley and the Forest of Dean are linked both by geography the forest forming the eastern rim of the valley for much of the Wye's lower reaches and by history, since they share a common heritage as a border between England and Wales.

This was the first Rockfax guidebook dedicated exclusively to the Costa Blanca and was the most comprehensive book ever published to sport and trad climbing on Spain’s ‘white coast’ – weighing in at 368 pages. It covered a host of superb cliffs between Leyva in the far south to Gandia in the north.

Rockfax Spain: Mallorca Rockfax is a comprehensive guidebook that covers the sport climbing and deep water soloing spots found on this popular Spanish island. It covers 50 crags in total and the routes are presented in the familiar full-colour Rockfax style which offers the clearest method available for locating and choosing your routes for the day. This new version features hundred of small changes throughout and around 50 extra routes added to the existing crags.

Alpine climbing guide to the Bregalia and Bernina areas of Switzerland - Including the Piz Badile.

A comprehensive alpine climbing guide to the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland. A new edition of a popular guide to this well-known area of the Alps, including for the first time the very fine alpine rock climbing area of the Salbitschijen. The guide describes routes on over 100 peaks and passes in the region including routes on all the 4000m peaks as well as on other major peaks such as the Eiger, Beitschhorn and Wetterhorn as well as on many less well-known summits.