Check out the latest additions to the BMC online shop, as well as some imminent arrivals.

What’s New

Cheesewring & South East Cornwall provides comprehensive coverage of climbing in the region, featuring trad, sport, DWS and bouldering. The guidebook contains more than 500 routes and 200 of the area’s best boulder problems at 27 separate climbing venues. The selected climbs of Gower Rock aim to showcase the depth and quality of rock climbing on this wild and beautiful yet somewhat unknown South Wales peninsula.

Arrampicare in Cadore is a new sport climbing guide to the Cortina d'Ampezzo / Marmolada area of the Dolomites. It’s packed with easy-to-follow maps of the area, loads of colour action shots and a full set of colour topos. New England Bouldering is a comprehensive guide to over 1100 problems at the region's best areas, including Lincoln Woods (Rhode Island) and Rumney (New Hampshire).

The 4000m Peaks of the Alps provides a practical companion guide to the Alpine 4000ers, with detailed description of every worthwhile route from beginners' climbs on the Breithorn to magnificent grandes courses like the Peuterey Ridge of Mont Blanc. This 2012 revised reprint has a comprehensive update of the valley bases, huts and their approaches, so that mountaineers can plan and execute their 4000m campaign without need to refer to any other texts.

Northumberland is England's most northern county, a magical place filled with ancient castles, golden sand beaches, rolling hills, rugged moorland and friendly little towns and villages. This latest addition to the Pocket Mountains series of walking guides is an affordable and practical guide to 40 of the best family walks in the region. Donegal, Sligo & Leitrim describes 30 walks in this fascinating part of the northwest of Ireland that has inspired poets, and is rich in folklore and history. From the wild, untamed landscape of Donegal, with its mountains, sea-cliffs and glens, to the gentler hills, green valleys and picturesque escarpments of Sligo and Leitrim, the guide will inspire you to explore this majestic landscape.

terraQuest laminated maps use a special lamination process and patented map joining techniques, so the maps can be easily adjusted to your choice of format. New this month are two maps: a trekking map of Patagonia covers Fitzroy, Cerro Torre, the Perito Moreno Glacier and Torres del Paine; and a map of the highest peaks in Turkey shows Mount Ararat, the Kackar Mountains and Mount Suphan.

A Canvas of Rock is Mark Radtke’s collection of personal experiences and friendships with some of the influential climbers from the 1970s to the present day, and provides a rare insight and first-hand account on some of the crucial and at times contentious episodes that paved the way to today’s rock climbing scene. Echoes: one climber's hard road to freedom is the story of Nick Bullock’s journey of discovery, which takes him from the confines of life as a prison officer in a maximum-security jail to a new found sense of freedom in a life devoted to the mountains. Echoes is a powerful and compelling exploration of what it means to live life on your own terms.

The shortlist for the Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature was announced earlier, this month, and we’ve just added some of the shortlisted titles to the online shop: Here, there and everwhere… is Jim Curran’s rigorous self-portrait, in turns hilarious and heartbreaking. Into The Silence is a monumental work of history and adventure, ten years in the writing, in which Wade Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept on climbing on that fateful day. The special – and all too often lethal – attraction of the second highest mountain on Earth is the subject of Richard Sale's fascinating new book, The Challenge of K2

The 2013 Boardman Tasker Calendar marks the 30th anniversary of the disappearance of Pete Boardman and Joe Tasker, last seen high on the North East Ridge of Mount Everest, heading for the summit in deteriorating weather. 12 stunning large format images celebrate two of the greatest ever British mountaineers, and provide a classic glimpse into an incredible period of British climbing history.

Once again we’re stocking a selection of calendars by renowned landscape photographer Colin Prior: Elements explores the natural world in detail; Scotland – the Wild Places is a classic appointments calendar with inspiring photography; the Scotland Panoramic Wall Calendar captures the essence of Scotland’s wild places like no other; and the free-standing Scotland Panoramic Desk Calendar is ideal for kitchens and offices.

The BMC Winter Lecture series returns in November, visiting Nottingham, Ellesmere Port, Harrogate, Cardiff, London and Cambridge. Tickets can now be purchased from the online shop

Visit the What’s New section of the BMC online shop to see all the new titles.

Coming Soon

Hot on the heels of Over The Moors comes another BMC guidebook. Cheshire & Merseyside Sandstone provides the local lowdown on these near-mythical crags, from the heights of Helsby to the pits of Pex, from Frogsmouth sport to Frodsham solos; it’s all here in the new definitive guide, due out mid-October.

Rock Climbing Essentials is the latest addition to our series of skills DVDs. When making your first forays onto the crags, it will guide you through the skills and techniques needed for a lifetime’s climbing. All climbing styles are covered in detail, including bouldering, sport climbing and single & multi-pitch traditional climbing.

Walking Cheshire’s Sandstone Trail is a guide to probably the most popular middle distance walk in Northwest England - the trail runs for 55km along Cheshire's central sandstone ridge between Frodsham and Whitchurch; with easy-to-follow route descriptions (in both directions), large scale OS mapping, and details of interesting sights to see on the way.

A revised and updated 2nd edition of The Inn Way... to the Peak District charts a 6-day circular walk, covering 84 miles and passing 51 great country pubs along the way. Never has a guidebook tick list been so much fun!

Lleyn Peninsula is the latest guidebook in the Top Ten Walks series, and covers the finest routes along a section of the Wales Coast Path, in a popular pocketable format. With clear information, an overview and introduction for each walk, expertly written numbered directions, large scale Ordnance Survey maps, and eye-grabbing panoramic photographs, these guides set a new standard in clarity and ease-of-use.

The Sunnmore Alps in western Norway is a unique area with majestic peaks rising straight from the sea to a height of 1,500-1,700 metres. This book gives you all the information you need to enjoy a huge variety of outdoor experiences within a radius of just 30 kilometres.

Within the pages of his new hardback book, Exploring Greenland, author Jim Gregson shares narratives of adventures and experiences lived in the impressive landscapes of the great Arctic wilderness. This is a land where areas still exist unvisited by humans. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 colour photographs, the book shows unequivocally what a precious wilderness the world could lose  if the trends in global warming continue unabated.

Boundless: an adventure beyond limits by medal winning Paralympic athlete Karen Darke is a book about facing challenge and fear, both in the wilderness and at home. It tells the story of Karen’s biggest challenges to date; crossing the Greenland ice cap by sit-ski, and climbing Yosemite’s El Capitan.

Keep a lookout for other titles Coming Soon

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