Products tagged with 'climbing guide book'

Discover over 88 crags across 11 major climbing areas with Briançon Climbs, the definitive bilingual (French/English) guidebook for rock climbing in France’s Durance Valley near Briançon, Ailefroide, and Vallouise. Covering sport routes and alpine classics up to 600m, this 384-page 2022 edition includes detailed photo-topos, access maps, and essential crag information like orientation, rock type, and walk-in times.

Versante Sud Arco Walls: Vol 2 is the ultimate rock climbing guide for adventurers and alpine climbing enthusiasts. Building on the first volume’s coverage of classic routes around Arco, this edition dives into the wild, remote sections of the Sarca Valley, offering climbers of all levels an extensive selection of multipitch routes. From hidden gems for experts to big-wall climbs that deliver a true Dolomites-style experience, this guide is essential for anyone looking to explore one of Europe's top climbing destinations.

Idea Montagna's "4000m Peaks of the Alps - (Normal and Classic Routes)" is a comprehensive guidebook that covers all 82 official four-thousanders in the Alps, detailing normal routes, classic variants and ski-mountaineering routes. It includes technical notes on safety, conditions, approach, hut information, gear and maps. The guide is in full colour, featuring easy-to-follow topos and route descriptions, as well as approach information, all in English across its 416 pages.

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.

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 & 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 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.