Gilwern Area
climbing guidebook Sport Climbing in England & Wales Vol 2 South
€44.00*
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
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climbing guidebook The Gilwern Area
€25.00*
The Gilwern Area is the first, fully comprehensive guide to the wealth of sport climbing and bouldering on the hillsides straddling the village of Gilwern, near Abergavenny. Gilwern Hill has been popular for a long time with climbers from Bristol, Gloucestershire and South Wales, the best of its climbing on top of the mountain with a huge panorama.
The guide has 218 sport routes (144 of which are graded F6b or below) a great many are generously bolted and readily accessible to the majority of climbers. Apart from the new sport crags, and over a 100 brand new sport climbs in its pages, there are also over 125 new trad climbs plus a plethora of unpublished bouldering.
The Gilwern Area is the fourth title in an on-going series of ?local guides for local climbers? lovingly put together and
published by Great Western Rock.
169 pages
language english
edition 2020
G. Jenkin & M. Davies
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