Avon Gorge

A lavishly illustrated, definitive guidebook to the Avon Gorge from the Climbers Club. It reflects the unique situation of a major crag in the centre of a university city and does full justice to its historical significance as well as taking full account of the major restoration work carried out by the Climb Bristol team over recent years. It also includes the crags on the west side of the gorge for the first time for half a century. 400 pages language english edition 2017 M. Crocker A Climbers´Club Guide

Bristol Sport is the long awaited Great Western Rock 500 page guidebook to the huge upsurge of sport climbing that has happened in the Bristol region.There are lots to discover within the pages of this book as considerable development has taken place in recent years. There are now over 825 full /hybrid sport pitches described and a multitude of new things to do. The lower-grade climber is usually poorly served on most UK sport crags but in this guide there are now 450 climbs ranging from F2 up to F6b+.This is a full, definitive guidebook and details the wealth of climbing that is now available not only in the city, and close by, but also throughout all of northern half of Somerset and its coastal crags.Bristol: Avon Gorge (Sea Walls, Portway Walls, Amphitheatre), Leigh Woods, Blaise Castle Gorge,Snuff Mills Park, Barnhill Quarry, Bourton Combe, Portishead Quarry, plus bonus secret Crag X!Coastal: Culver Cliff, Charlcombe Cornice, Walton Cliff, High Cliff, Brean Down, Axe Quarry,Chopper Cove, Uphill Quarry.The Mendips: Webbington North Quarry, The Perch Quarry, Burrington Combe, Ebbor Gorge,Milton Hill (Split Rock) Quarry, Stoke Lane Quarry, Vallis Vale.512 pageslanguage englishedition 2023GWR

This book, Volume 2, includes more than 4600 routes on 101 crags across the south of England and Wales, including Carmarthen Bay, the Gower Peninsula, Swansea Bay, the Welsh Valleys, Gilwern, the Wye Valley, Avon, Cheddar (north side only), Portland, Lulworth, Swanage, Devon and Cornwall.All grades are represented, from the easiest beginner routes to test-piece climbs that rank amongst the hardest in the world, though the book is predominantly aimed at those climbing from F5 to F7b, with these routes given the most attention.Despite a huge geographic coverage, this compact guidebook manages to describe pretty much all of the worthwhile sport crags in the south of England and Wales, including detailed access, approach and parking information alongside full photo-topos and super-accurate maps.524 pageslanguage englishedition 2024S. BroadbentOxford Alpine Club