Climbing

A new, comprehensive edition to the extensive bouldering in Albarracin. As before, all the approaches, areas and bouldering problems have been examined and revised by the author over several years. New lines have been added, including several lines that have never been documented in previous guidebooks.

Wired Guides’ Scottish Rock Climbs showcases 1,760 of the very best trad and sport routes across Scotland, covering a wealth of climbing never before presented in a single volume. Its breadth and scope takes in the Galloway hills; the outcrops of the Central and North-West Highlands; the mountain ranges of Arran, the Cairngorms, Glen Coe, Lochaber, Torridon, Assynt and Sutherland; the sea-cliffs of the north-east and north-west coasts, the Hebrides and the Northern Isles; and historical urban test-pieces at Dumbarton.

Cheddar Gorge is one of the most important climbing sites in the south of Britain and its restoration project has enabled many more climbs to become accessible when compared to the previous winter-only arrangements. This guidebook provides easy-to-use topos and descriptions of the best and most widely accessible climbing routes in Cheddar Gorge, plus all the vital access information, the relevant appendices and contextual documents.

The Rockfax Dorset guidebook covers sport and trad climbing accross Portland, Swanage and Lulworth along the Dorset coast. These are some of the most popular sport climbing areas in the country and have a huge number of routes across the grades and offer great appeal to climbers of all abilities.

Lake District Bouldering is a comprehensive guide to bouldering in the Lake District National Park. Written by Greg Chapman, it features almost 3,000 problems and dozens of variations at over 70 venues. Each crag features detailed access information, including GPS coordinates for parking and crag grid references, and local knowledge.

This new edition of Grandes Voies de Corse describes 110 multi-pitch routes on most of the major cliffs on the island of of Corsica situated away the Bavella massif (for Bavella itself, see the 2020 edition of Bavella Corsica: CCE692). The routes described encompass both trad and fully-bolted sport routes and cover all the grades.

Dorset has emerged as a major bouldering area in recent years thanks to the hard work of a bunch of diligent locals who have combed the coastline seeking out every block, problem and traverse. Chief amongst these developers has been Ben Stokes who has documented the developments in two popular Rockfax PDF MiniGuides. Ben put everything together into a much larger Rockfax book, adding loads of new areas and expanding the existing coverage.

This book by Patagonia provides the scientifically backed and athlete-tested wisdom and experience of three of the best uphill athletes. It educates outdoor athletes of all stripes to develop plans to perform their best.

This is a comprehensive guidebook covering all the sport climbing at Leonidio, the largest climbing area in mainland Greece. The guidebook also includes the additional areas of Kyparissi, Agios Petros and Agios Andreas. In total the guidebook details over 1,700 routes across 42 crags at Leonidio, plus over 300 routes across 9 crags at Kyparissi. Included in the free App that comes with the guidebook are an additional 32 crags and over 300 routes.

The areas first comprehensive bouldering guide - Covering Bristol, Costa del Severn, Mendips, Wye Valley, Forest of Dean and The Cotswolds.

South Wales Bouldering has over 240 pages and 1100 boulder problems and covers the area from the western edges of Pembrokeshire, across the sandstone of the South Wales Valleys, coastal and mountain limestone and across to key venues on the side of the River Wye on the edge of the Forest of Dean.

A Climbers’ Club guide to Moelwynion, Cwm Lledr, Cwm Teigl, The Migneint and Town Crags around Blaenau Ffestiniog & Tanygrisiau. A comprehensive guide to rock climbing on the cliffs and crags surrounding Blaenau Ffestiniog and Dolwyddelan, this new guidebook showcases an often overlooked area of Snowdonia.

Wye Valley Sport is the long awaited guidebook to the wealth of sport climbing in the Lower Wye Valley.

This is the twenty-first UK climbing guide either written, compiled or edited by Gary Gibson. Each copy is signed by the author. This is an up to date topo guide to Harpur Hill in Derbyshire with 333 routes and twenty two topos. The publication includes an original line drawing of Papacy Buttress by Malc Baxter and was designed by Tim Hoddy.

The Great Mountain Crags of Scotland is a celebration of climbing in Scotland’s wild places, compiled by Guy Robertson and Adrian Crofton. Featuring contributions from many of Scottish mountaineering’s great writers and climbers, and beautifully illustrated with breath-taking photography, it delves deep into the heart of some of the oldest mountains on Earth.

With a variety of crags and easy access all this is possible in the Peak area. The main attractions are the extensive gritstone crags that stretch from Wimberry in the northwest, through the eastern edges and the central grit crags, and on to Staffordshire.