Christmas Books - Our Recommendations
From inspiring new rock guides and big name autobiographies, through glossy photography books to some fascinating writing compilations, readers this Christmas will be spoilt for choice. Here are our favourites.
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Waymaking - A Women's Adventure Writing Anthology
Waymaking, an anthology of women's adventure writing and art, is the first book of its kind. Does its gendered agenda bear fruit, asks Natalie Berry?
Highland Scrambles South
A decade after its predecessor was published, this follow-up to the SMC's classic Highland Scrambles North has finally hit the shelves. Dan Bailey takes it for a test run.
The Ogre by Doug Scott
Thought you'd heard everything about that infamous 1977 expedition? This short, beautifully presented account from Doug Scott himself stands apart from the traditional long-winded Himalayan epic, says Natalie Berry.
Alan Hinkes - 1st Brit to Climb the World's Highest Mts
Alan Hinkes is still the only Brit to have climbed all the world's 8000m peaks. Terry Abraham's new...
Christmas Books - Our Recommendations
From biography and photography to guidebooks galore, lovers of mountain books have had plenty to celebrate over the last...
The Art of Freedom by Bernadette McDonald
John Porter, author of the acclaimed Alex MacIntyre biography One Day as a Tiger, examines this new book on the...
The Magician's Glass, by Ed Douglas
In the age of clickbait, long-form journalism has suffered a decline in the climbing media. The Magician's Glass by Ed Douglas...
Latest News
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Greg Chapman's new LakesBloc book is available to pre-order
Lake District Bouldering is the long-awaited guide to bouldering in the Lake District National Park. Written by Greg Chapman, one of the pioneers of bouldering in the Lakes, it features almost 3,000 individually numbered problems and dozens of var...
Edmund Hillary's biography now available to pre-order
Edmund Hillary – A Biography is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed Mount Everest. A man who against expedition orders drove his tractor to the South Pole; a man honoured around the world for his pioneering climbs...
Tony Howard's new autobiography is now available to pre-order
Tony Howard rose to fame in 1965 as a member of a group of young climbers from northern England who made the first British ascent of Norway's Troll Wall; a climb described by Joe Brown as, 'One of the greatest ever...
Trekking in Tajikistan by Cicerone Press
Step into another world, a land of soaring peaks and wild valleys, criss-crossed by a network of centuries-old...
Tessa Lyons T-shirts, Prints and Accessories
For Winter 2018/19 Tessa has increased her range of t-shirts, prints, and accessories.
30% off Biographies at Vertebrate Publishing
According to some forecasters we're in for our coldest winter in eight years. With freezing temperatures...
This isn't just a hillwalking guidebook
Nick Livesey's Photographing The Snowdonia Mountains will be published early December. Pre-orders for £22 are now...
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