Climbing & Mountaineering

If you had something really important to shout about, you could do worse than to climb to the point furthest from the centre of the Earth - some 2,...

Voytek Kurtyka is one of the greatest alpinists of all time. Born in 1947, he was one of the leading lights of the Polish golden age of mountaineer...

'All mountaineers develop differently. Some go higher, some try ever-steeper faces and others specialise in a particular range or region. I am incr...

THE GRIPPING, TERRIFYING STORY OF A BRUTAL STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL ON THE UPPER SLOPES OF THE HIMALAYAN K2, THE WORLD'S MOST HOSTILE TERRAIN. 'Unputd...

This is the second Rockfax guidebook to this spectacular and beautiful area, the first 2008 volume won the Banff Guidebook of the Year Award and pu...

Volume 1 of Scottish Rock covers a proliferation of Scottish crags up to the natural demarcation of the Great Glen. They are easier to access than ...

A guidebook to 41 graded walks and scrambles in the Anti-Atlas mountains. Exploring the dramatic scenery of southern Morocco, the walks are suitabl...

John Gill: Master of Rock is a captivating look into the life, achievements and ethos of boulderer John Gill. This new edition of the classic title...

Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2017 WANTED: Diligent volunteer to carry out two months'''' painstaking archival work for private libra...

From historic rock-faces to never-before summited peaks, this stunning visual book brings to life the incredible experience of climbing hard and cl...

This guide, now in a fully updated sixth edition, offers a selection of some of the best winter routes to be found in the Cairngorms and on Creag M...

Scrambling is the highly popular pursuit which combines the freedom enjoyed by the hillwalker with the more immediate excitement of the rock climbe...

A deeply moving story of the beauty and brutality of life, and death, on the world's most unpredictable and perilous mountain. Adrian Hayes detail...

'How much risk is worth taking for so beautiful a prize?The Magicians Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essa...

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...

Sir Chris Bonington is a household name as a result of his distinguished mountaineering career during which he has lead pioneering expeditions to...

This guide describes some of the best scrambles and easy rock climbs to be found in Scotland (excepting Skye and the Northern Highlands which are d...

At a time when the greatest mountains in the greatest ranges had been climbed by numerous routes, collected like stamps and written about extensive...

Winner, Mountain Literature (Non-Fiction) Award, Banff Mountain Book Festival 2018Nick Bullock is a climber who lives in a small green van, flittin...