A guide to deep water soloing in the UK, Europe and selected venues across the world.

This is Rockfax's 25th climbing guide, and the first that covers deep water soloing venues in the UK and beyond.

Some of the venues covered:---
Swanage, Lulworth, Portland, Devon, Cornwall, Pembroke, Scotland, Rest of the UK, Portugal, Costa Blanca, Mallorca, Rest of Europe, Australia, Rest of the world.

The guide is well illustrated with colour photo's, and the route descriptions etc are up to Rockfax's usual high standards. A must for the aspiring deep water soloist.

320 pages.

South West England has long been celebrated for its natural beauty: the grandeur of a dramatic coastline contrasting with a rural hinterland of picture postcard villages and winding country lanes. Much of the three hundred miles of coastline which rings the peninsula is very precipitous and geologically diverse, and consequently it has evolved into perhaps the most varied climbing region in the British Isles.

This guide contains a selection of rock climbs from Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset and Jersey.

288 pages. (Revised and re-printed 2008 version)

Beneath the Carboniferous limestone of the Wye Valley area, exemplified by the ever-popular crags of Symonds Yat, lies an older and shyer neighbour; a 12-metre thick band of resistant, pebbly Old Red Sandstone. Secretively outcropping within symbiotic woodland along the rolling northern escarpments of the Forest of Dean, these quartz conglomorate sandstones require you to look hard to discover their true potential. Although the discovery was made in the 1960's, it was not until the turn of the 21st century that the painstaking search for more sandstone treasure really began.

A new experience for most, climbing on sandstone is something not to be missed.

184 pages.

This guidebook covers the North Devon and Cornwall coastline between Ilfracombe and St Ives Bay - a length of 100 miles as the crow flies, but a lot more when you allow for every creek and zawn. With the exception of limestone, of which there is a surfeit elsewhere in South West Britain, virtually every type of climable rock can be found; though 'climable' is used here subjectively, and certainly in its loosest sense.

Areas covered:--- Baggy Point, The Culm Coast, The Atlantic Coast,

368 pages.