Climbing & Mountaineering

The mountains of Ireland are wild and untrodden. There is a powerful and magnetic quality to Irelands high places, a mix of mountains and sea that ...

To the impartial observer Britain does not appear to have any mountains. Yet the British invented the sport of mountain climbing and for two period...

Another cold winter in 2010/2011 led to much new route activity across the Highlands. The lead article is an account of the first ascent of Stone T...

Imagine an alien came down to Earth, stuck a probe into a climbers brain one whod been climbing for over thirty years and then transmogrified the...

Acclaimed hillwalking writers Ian R Mitchell and George Rodway tell the fascinating story of Aberdeen-born Alexander Kellas, and his contribution t...

Guidebook to the best graded winter climbing routes around Ben Nevis and Glen Coe, with nearly 1000 buttresses, ridges and gullies described, all i...

This guidebook of selected climbs from the Swiss Alpine Club describes the most attractive 4c to 6b+ multi-pitch routes of Furka, Grimsel, Susten a...

The Next Horizon, the second volume in Chris Bonington's autobiography after I Chose to Climb, picks up his story from 1962 and relates his subsequ...

Lancashire Rock - this is the 2016 edition of the definitive guidebook from the BMC covering all the routes in Lancashire in one volume. There are ...

A rediscovered mountaineering classic and the extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount Kenya by three prisoners of war.When the clouds ...

E.F. (Teddy) Norton was a member of the 1922 Everest expedition and the leader of the 1924 attempt on the mountain. In 1922 he reached a then recor...

Originally, South-West Climbs, published in 1979 by Diadem, was a single-volume publication and was a collaboration between one of the South West's...

Packed with inspiring photographs, entertaining stories, strange ideas and expert advice, this book is so much more than your essential guide to ex...

There is a myth: that travel and exploration are the privileged pastimes of youth. Adventure has an age restriction, and the extraordinary an expir...

Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacti...