North Wales Rock: Selected Rock Climbs in North Wales
Product Description
North Wales Rock: Selected Rock Climbs in North Wales
This is the 2009 2nd edition of North Wales Rock, a selected climbing guide to the world famous crags of North-West Wales. The guide showcases over 676 of the finest climbs from all the best areas: the Llanberis Pass, the Dinorwig Slate Quarries, Cloggy, Lliwedd, Ogwen and the Carneddau, Tremadog and the Moelwyns, Gogarth, the Lleyn Peninsula and the Llandudno limestone crags. This is a thoroughly modern production using full-colour topos, extensive area maps and individual crag approach maps. It also features an unprecedented collection of inspiring action shots and wild landscape images.
This is a thoroughly modern production using full colour topos, extensive area maps and individual crag approach maps. North Wales Rock also features an unprecedented collection of inspiring action shots and wild landscape images.
It has been researched and produced by the Ground Up team, which consists of Simon Panton (principal author and editor), Al Williams (designer), Rob Wilson, Al Leary, Graham Desroy, Simon Marsh, Mark Reeves and Pete Robins.
Features
ISBN 13: 9780955441738
No of Pages: 544
Page Size: 116 x 170
Publisher: Ground Up*
Published Date: July 2009
Cover: paperback
Illustrations: colour photos and topos
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Nanuls - Oct 28, 2009 8:34 am - Voted 5/5
North Wales Rock: Selected Rock Climbs in North WalesThe presentation is superb, echoing what Rockfax have been doing for some time now, and in many instances, exceeding even what they have produced. Each distinct area within North Wales gets its own little section, which are made easy to find by the inclusion of coloured tabs on the edges of the book's pages. Each section contains a clear and legible map directing the reader to the crags in the area, and each crag has a short introduction, which includes a colour coded list of routes sorted by grade. In short it makes selecting routes a joy, and one can spend many happy hours at home leafing through its pages planning future adventures. An interesting deviation from the norm is the omission of stars for rating route quality. In this case, it's a nice touch, implying that since this is a general guide, all the routes are of high quality and more than worthy of a climb.
The book's photographic topos are most welcome, showing just enough to get an idea of the route, but not enough to spoil its mystery. The plethora of action and landscape shots are also very nice, many of them taken by the authors themselves, while others have been taken by some of Britain's foremost professional mountain photographers, including Snowdonia's very own Ray Wood.
If I am to find fault in the book in any way, and this is a purely personal opinion stemming from my usual geographical disposition, is that the crags of southern Snowdonia have been more or less ignored. Cadair Idris is of course there, but I would have liked to have seen crags such as Craig yr Aderyn make their way in there too. Subsequently, I won't be retiring my now rapidly dating (in light of this and the new Climbers' Club guides) Rock Climbing in Snowdonia by the late Paul Williams. Having said that, given the rarity in which South Snowdonia's crags are visited, and the size of the book as it is, any new southern additions would likely result in the omission of more popular crags in the north.
Basically, if you're looking for a high quality, general guide to North Wales, then this really is the only book for you.