Escalade dans le Jura bernois

Author C. Devaux Girardin, Ch. Girardin
Published CAS (2013)
ISBN 978-3-85902-383-3

Website sac-cas.ch

Review

Definitive guidebook in French and German to single and multi-pitch sport climbing in the Bernese Jura, covering the area around Biel over 288 pages. 25 crags or areas are included, generally split into several buttresses or sub-crags. Standout venues include Plagne (75 pages alone), Orvin, and the crags around Moutier and Grandval.

The climbs are detailed only in sketch topos, however these are of good quality and one may consider that the hilly and forested environment would often make photo topos impractical. Compensatingly, there are great photos of the local snakes, the smooth snake and aspic viper: only the latter is venemous.


Crags covered by this Guide
Bern crags # climbs Rocktype Faces
ArĂȘte Speciale 1 Limestone W
Bonnes Fontaines 51 Limestone SE
Gaicht 30 Limestone SE
La Neuveville 17 Limestone S
Le Paradis 90 Limestone SE
Le RĂȘche 58 Limestone S
Le Schilt 14 Limestone S
Plagne 698 Limestone W
Raimeux 50 Limestone S
Rochers de Grandval 90 Limestone S
Roches d'Orvin 224 Limestone S
Vingelz 46 Limestone S

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