Outdoor
You rely on your outdoor equipment and outdoor clothing to keep you alive and comfortable when you are pushing yourself in the outdoors, so you should arm yourself with the best knowledge and the most appropriate equipment.
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Climbers Club
Pembroke Range East (Vol 4) Saddle Head to St Govan's
Over 1,000 routes between VD and E10 all within 15 minutes flat walk of the car park, what more could you want? Within its covers this guidebook includes the stupendous cleft of Huntsman’s Leap, the stunning west wall of Stennis Ford and the more amenable Saddle Head and Stennis Head.
Rockfax
North Wales Slate
This is Rockfax's first full guide to North Wales Slate and covers the amazing quarries near Llanberis famous for their technical run-out slabs and, more recently, for the wealth of sport climbing. It is also famous for the bizarre and spectacular rock formations that give a unique climbing environment.
Great Western Rock
Frome Valley Sandstone
The cult that is Frome valley climbing is at last available for all - The sandstone favourites of Winterbourne micro-routes and Ring Road bouldering are covered here plus masses more.
Rockfax
Clwyd Limestone
This book covers the fine area of quality limestone crags and quarries lining the Eglwyseg Valley, situated to the north of Llangollen, and some delightful quarries and smaller edges in the near-by area.
Rockfax
North Wales Climbs
The 2023 edition of Rockfax North Wales Climbs builds upon the success of the 2013 edition, offering expanded coverage with numerous additional routes and predominantly new aerial crag photography. All maps have been meticulously updated, and the guide features an entirely new collection of striking action photographs. The variety of crags, routes, and climbing styles is unparalleled, encompassing the major mountain crags of Llanberis Pass, Cloggy, Ogwen, Moelwyns, and the Carneddau, as well as the Llanberis Slate quarries, Tremadog, Mid-Wales, Gogarth, and the Ormes of Llandudno.
UK Mountain Training Board
Hill Walking - Official Handbook of the Mountain Training Walking Schemes 3rd Edition
The official training handbook of the Mountain Leader and Walking Group Leader Schemes. Packed with essential information and techniques to enable all walkers to consolidate existing skills and develop new.
Knife Edge Outdoor
Tour Du Mont Blanc: The worlds most famous trek, everything you need to know to plan and walk it
Complete guidebook for planning and trekking the Tour du Mont Blanc, the world's most famous trek. Real maps for each stage: 1:25,000. No need to carry a separate map!
Cockerel
Gower New Developments 2019
A South Wales Climbing Wiki Supplement covering climbs since the South Wales Sport Climbs Rockfax, inc. Saddam's Wall, Sister 2.5 Upper and Third Sister.
Cockerel
Gower New Developments 2018
Gower New Developments 2018, is a South Wales Climbing Wiki Supplement covering climbs since the South Wales Sport Climbs Rockfax (2016) and is written by Tim Hoddy, Roy Thomas and Alan Rosier, and reprinted in June 2020 by Cockerel Books and Up and Under outdoor gear in Cardiff.
Cockerel
Lancashire Rock Update
Lancashire Rock Update (2019), Les Ainsworth & Dave Cronshaw, privately published, 2019, 93 page A5 booklet, new routes and a comprehensive first ascents list.
Versante Sud
Hooking Up - The Ultimate Big Wall and Aid Climbing Manual
Everything you [n]ever wanted to know about big wall and aid climbing – from light and fast speed ascents to full-on vertical camping – along with the most up-to-date tips, tricks and techniques to teach you the Better Way to climb big walls.
Kong
Target Canyon
The Kong Target Canyon harness expertly blends the comfort of a mountaineering harness with the durability and design needed for demanding canyoning and caving adventures. Its special front attachment point accommodates a quick link and allows you to connect a chest ascender in a lower position, making ascents more efficient by gaining an extra 10-15 cm with each push. Built for professional use, this harness is not only tough and abrasion-resistant but also equipped with features that optimise both comfort and performance. The quick link also doubles as an auxiliary attachment point, perfect for rescue manoeuvres. Ideal for those who need reliability and versatility in challenging environments.
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Kong
Protective Seat
Kong Protective Seat for use with the Target Canyon harness.
MSR
Hubba NX Solo
The Hubba NX Solo is a free-standing 1 person tent ideal for lightweight backpacking, particularly good in hot weather due to good ventilation which is achieved with the upper half of the inner being mesh and a flysheet which isn't close to the ground. It is an inner pitching first tent with a pole structure attaching to the inner and then the outer attaching over the top. This structure is free-standing with only the porch corner needing to being pegged out.
Rockfax
Lake District Climbs
Lake District Climbs is packed with stunning photography to inspire, and the information documented in the clear and concise format that has made Rockfax the most popular climbing guidebooks in Europe. With nearly 1000 routes on 58 cliffs there is enough climbing described in Lake District Climbs to give the majority of climbers a lifetime of tremendous traditional climbing in a stunning environment.
Wired Guides
Lake District Rock
The new edition of Lake District Rock covers the best that Lakeland has to offer the climber, it is the book of choice for visiting climbers. Published under the Wired brand by the FRCC this guidebook is the first of an exciting new series that will cover the whole of the United Kingdom.