Books and Maps

The Wildthings Wild Guide of the Lake District & Yorkshire Dales guides you around 750 secret places and wild adventures, including slow food treats and quirky places to stay, this book is perfect for the discerning explorer seeking unusual things to do off the beaten track, for families and for couples dreaming about the ultimate weekend escape. It includes 20 detailed Ordnance Survey locator maps, and over 350 photos.

The Wildthings Wild Guide of Devon, Cornwall & South West takes you on a voyage of discovery to the lesser-known corners of Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset. Featuring over 500 wild places for exploration and adventure, and 300 ideas for wild places to eat, camp or stay, it’s the perfect insider’s guide to Britain’s favourite holiday destination. The Wild Guide features 28 detailed maps, stunning photos and engaging travel writing. This is the perfect book for those seeking new adventures with the family, or dreaming up the ultimate romantic weekend escape.

The Wildthings Wild Guide of Wales and the Marches features a new compendium of adventures, from the best-selling and award-winning Wild Guide series, now released for Wales and the Marches (Herefordshire and Shropshire). Guiding you to over 1000 secret places and wild adventures, including slow food treats and quirky places to stay, this book is perfect for the discerning explorer seeking unusual things to do off the beaten track.

The Ordnance Survey Short Walks Made Easy series of guidebooks feature simple turn-by-turn directions and reassuring photos of selected points along the way, with easy-to-follow route profiles and easy-read, ultra-clear walk maps. These are the perfect guidebooks for those with no previous walking experience or specialist gear, featuring bottom-of-the-hill walks in some of Britain's favourite outdoor places. Fascinating places of interest may provide ideas for extending your visit, while Nature Notes point to things you might spot.

On Sight Publishing North Wales Limestone - The Definitive Guide (2023) covers all the climbing along the North Wales coastal area - from Benllech in the west to The Devil?s Gorge (near Mold) in the east, including the popular Great and Little Ormes of Llandudno. The book details nearly 2,000 routes, 600 more than the 2014 edition. The majority of the routes are well equipped sport climbs, with the exception of the nationally significant trad venue of Craig y Forwyn.

Vertebrate Publishing's Bikepacking Wales - 18 multi day off road cycling adventures by Emma Kingston is a fantastic guide that contains various biking adventure routes across Wales. Traverse the long, grassy ridges and heather-lined singletrack of the Brecon Beacons, explore the world-class trails in the remote Elan Valley, enjoy the stunning coastal trails on Rhossili Down on the Gower, complete the popular Trans Cambrian Way in the undulating Cambrian Mountains, and take a tour around the highest mountain in Wales and England - Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) - including an optional route to the summit of Eryri (Snowdonia).

Bartvan Raaij 5 + 6 Greater Fontainebleau - 5286 Straight Ups in Greater Fontainebleau is a climbing guide book in the greater Fontainebleau area.

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.

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.

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 and Rock Climbing Club Dow & Coppermines is a pocket-sized climbing guide that comprehensively covers the routes on Dow, neighbouring Blind Tarn Crag and for the first time, records the climbs on the adjacent outcrops.

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 Oxford Alpine Club Sport Climbs in England & Wales: Volume 1 North describes all of the best sport climbing destinations across England and Wales, with full photo-topos, approach and access information and detailed maps throughout.

British Mountaineering Council's Lancashire Rock guidebook is the 2016 edition of the definitive guide from the BMC, it covers all the routes across Lancashire in one volume. There are 3200 routes in total, ranging from Mod to E9 across 95 different crags throughout the county.

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.