Climbing

The Oxford Alpine Club Sport Climbs in England & Wales: Volume 2 South covers more than 4600 climbs across areas such as Carmarthen, the Gower peninsula, Swansea Bay, Portland and Cornwall to name a few. It includes full photo-topos, as well as full access and approach information and detailed maps throughout. Spanning no fewer than 20 geographic areas in full detail, this guide is an ideal addition to any climber's guidebook library.

Mid Wales Climbing South Snowdonia Bouldering is a comprehensive guidebook that covers all the bouldering in South Snowdonia in areas such as Blaenau-Ffestiniog, Bala, Harlech, Dolgellau and Aberystwyth. Almost all of the boulder problems listed in this guide are forthcoming spots and previously undocumented. All the boulder problems are shown on colour photo topos along with a description, and the vast majority are also shown on boulder maps. For each area there are clear approach maps and information.

Vertebrate Publishing Tides - A Climber's Voyage is the award-winning follow-up to Nick Bullock's critically acclaimed debut book Echoes. It is a gripping memoir that captures the very essence of what it means to dedicate one's life to climbing.

The Great Western Rock Mendip Outcrops is the new Great Western Rock, 400 page guidebook to the trad climbing in the Mendip Hills (not including Cheddar Gorge).

Great Western Rock Bristol Sport is the long awaited 500 page guidebook to the huge upsurge of sport climbing that has happened in the Bristol region. There are lots to discover within the pages of this book as considerable development has taken place in recent years.

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.

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.