The Yorkshire Mountaineering Club has just published the first book in a two-volume series of definitive guides to the gritstone routes and bouldering of ‘God’s own county’.

Yorkshire Gritstone Volume 1: Almscliff to Slipstones features over 50 crags. With descriptions for over 2,000 routes from Moderate to E8 and a similar number of boulder problems from Font 1 to 8b+, it will keep most keen climbers occupied for the foreseeable future, at least until the second book in the series is published.

Climbing areas covered by Volume 1 are:

• Almscliff
• Caley and The Chevin
• Brimham and outlying crags
• Great Wolfrey to Eavestone
• Barden Fell to Hunter's Stones - including Simon's Seat
• The Slipstones Area
• Hetchell and outlying crags

Route and problem descriptions are supported by hundreds of full-colour photo topos, over 65 crag access maps and some stunning aerial photographs showing the crags from an unusual perspective.

The rich heritage of climbing in the area is brought to life with profiles of the climbers that shaped the Yorkshire Grit scene, full first ascent details, climbing history and graded lists and over 150 full-colour action photographs.

To purchase your copy of Yorkshire Gritstone Volume 1: Almscliff to Slipstones, visit the BMC online shop or call the Membership Services Team on 0161 445 6111.

BMC Member Price:  £21.60
Non-member Price:  £24.00

The Yorkshire Mountaineering Club makes a donation to the BMC Access & Conservation Trust for every guidebook purchased.

Yorkshire Gritstone Volume 2 will include Ilkley, Crookrise, Widdop, Heptonstall, Earl Crag, Shipley Glen and many more. The 1999 guidebook to Yorkshire Gritstone is still available from the BMC online shop, and covers both the area described in the new Volume 1 and the area to be described in the yet to be published Volume 2.

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