Climbing guide books Item ID: #157


Peak District Climbing – Vertebrate Publishing



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Product Information:

ISBN 13: 9781906148065
No of Pages: 322
Page Size: 147 x 210
Publisher: Vertebrate
Published Date: Mar 08
Cover: paperback
Illustrations: photo topos, colour diagrams, pics
Weight: 660 gms.
Delivery time: 3 – 5 business days

Item Description

Peak District Climbing is a fantastic climbing book, featuring over 850 of the best climbs and boulder problems in the Peak District. It’s ideal for those looking for climbs in the lower grades, there’s over 400 from Mod to HVS. There’s also some great E1s to try.

The book features both gritstone and limestone crags. You’ll also find some of the best mid-grade sport climbing venues in the Peaks, featuring grades from F5 to F6c+.

For keen boulderers, you’ll love the gritstone boulder problems, over 350 up to Font 7a.

The book is illustrated with clear and easy-to-use photo topos and maps, together with stunning action photography from the country’s best rock climbing photographers, including Ian Parnell, Alex Messenger, Pete O’Donovan, David Simmonite, Adam Long, Keith Sharples and Mike Robertson.

The venues featured in the book are:

  • Birchen Edge
  • Burbage (North and South)
  • Cratcliffe Tor & Robin Hood’s Stride
  • Curbar
  • Froggatt
  • Lawrencefield
  • Millstone
  • Rivelin
  • Stanage (North, Plantation and Popular End)
  • Castle Naze
  • Hen Cloud
  • Kinder (North and South)
  • The Roaches
  • Winberry
  • Windgather
  • Cheedale : Blackwell Halt
  • Harborough Rocks
  • Harpur Hill Quarry
  • Horseshoe Quarry
  • Staden Quarry
  • Stoney Middleton
  • Wildcat