A new book dedicated to the fine climbing around the famous Gorge at El Chorro has just been published by Rockfax.

The huge limestone defile slices through the mountain range just 50km inland from the city of Málaga, in the province of Andalucia. It is one of the world’s most famous sport climbing destinations and was one of the first areas in Europe to be equipped during the development of this style of rock climbing during the 1980s.

Since then, development has spread to all the surrounding cliffs and walls resulting in a superb set of varied routes from long multi-pitch big wall climbs, to easily-accessed single-pitch sectors. Beyond the confines of the gorge and its neighbouring cliffs the Andalucian landscape provides limestone aplenty and crags the equal of the best on offer around El Chorro. These fine near neighbours are covered in this Rockfax and are all easily accessed from an El Chorro base for daily visits.

Alan James of Rockfax says: “We actually produced our first guide to El Chorro way back in January 1994. It was a set of six printed yellow cards covering around 400 routes. Things have moved on quite a way in the intervening 15 years - this latest book has over 1000 routes and is produced in glorious full colour with 200 pages! I am very pleased to finally have produced a book worthy of this fine area.”

The author Mark Glaister has made many trips to the area and put together a stunning series of photographs for the action shots and photo-topos.

The book is available online from the Rockfax website and also from most UK outdoor retailers.

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