The third edition of Lake District Rock covers the best that Lakeland has to offer the climber, it is the book of choice for all visiting climbers. Published under the Wired brand by the FRCC it is the latest in the exciting Wired Guides series of books.
Showcasing the incredible diversity and world-class quality of Lakeland climbing delivered with full coverage using the latest photo-diagrams and illustrations in an ultra bright A5 format. Ranging from sport-climbing venues and super-classic mountain crags to costal adventures and south facing sun-traps. We have included the lot.
Lake District Rock contains over 1,300 rock climbs on 107 crags. Featuring clear mapping, crisp photo-diagram coverage, and sensational action and landscape images.
Familiar FRCC guidebook colourings making it easy to step up to the comprehensive books: Langdale; Dow & Coppermines; Duddon & Wrynose; Eskdale; Scafell & Wasdale; Gable & Pillar; Buttermere & St. Bees; Borrowdale; Eastern Crags; Eden Valley & South Lakes Limestone; and Lakes Sport & Slate.
This guidebook will inspire you to get out to the Lakeland crags!
Lake District Rock is the best selected guidebook to the Lake District providing a first class selection of the very best routes in Lakeland.
Lake District Rock is the best available introduction to rock climbing in the English Lake District. It is a selected climbs guidebook written and designed by local climbers, published by the Fell and Rock Climbing Club under the brand of Wired Guides. The FRCC has been producing climbing guidebooks to the Lake District for over 100 years and this latest offering with almost 1300 routes on almost 100 crags draws on all that experience to provide the best possible selection across all the grades and styles of climbing that the region has to offer. Mainly trad climbing but also a selection of the best sport and bouldering available.
This latest edition builds on the original version from 2003 that was updated and brought under the Wired banner in 2015 (the 2015 edition was the guidebook category winner at the 2015 Banff Mountain Festival). This new edition offers a few changes in crag and route selection as well as a complete revamp of how the information is presented. Every crag has a map and QR codes for parking and a link to the BMC access database; approaches have been rewritten and new photo-diagrams provided. All of this makes the guide easy to follow, assuming no prior knowledge of the area. It will help climbers decide where best for them to climb on any given day and then get them to their chosen crag and the bottom of their selected route. The route descriptions and descents, alongside the diagrams, are clear and concise. The book is illustrated by an amazing collection of professional photographs to provide further inspiration.
There are also recommendations provided: a star-rating, ‘best in class’ for each grade and the guidebook team’s own selected ‘gems’.
Below are a number of sample pages to give an idea of just how wonderful, colourful, and informative this new guidebook is. Get your copy here…
