Winter Climbs in the Lake District - A Winter Climber's Guideboo

Guidebook in a fresh new format with every known winter climb from every part of England's Lake District – nearly 1000 routes in all. From classic high-mountain gullies to frozen watercourses and icefalls. A joint production by the Fell and Rock Climbing Club and Cicerone Press.

Lake District Winter Climbs

Author

Brian Davison

Cover

Paperback - PVC

Edition

First

ISBN_13

9781852844844

Availability

Published

Price

£17.95

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Front Cover (1)
Overview Maps (1)
Sample Routes (1)
Sample Photos (1)

Seasons

October to April, but climbs unlikely to be in condition before January.

Centres

Langdale, Coniston, Eskdale, Wasdale, Ennerdale, Buttermere, Borrowdale, Thirlmere, Patterdale, northern and eastern fells

Difficulty

Winter climbing skills required.

Must See

Helvellyn coves, Great End, Scafell, Newland's Hause, Low Water Beck

'Helicopter-borne FRCC crag paparazzi and Cicerone join forces to produce a gorgeous-looking compendium of Lakeland Winter esoterica.
So who cares if it hardly ever snows? It makes Cumbria look like Canada; something to drool over by a log fire with tumbler of whisky and dream of perfect Lakeland neve.'

(Climb Magazine / February 07)

“This is a guide that should be at the heart of many climbers. The guide lists every known winter route worth recording in the Lake District. What more could you ask for? Guaranteed conditions! That would be all too easy and much too dull.
This guide with its dedicated team, will entice us out, informs us of local secrets which, combined with good forecast watching, means we can be armed and ready to pounce and grab those elusive routes…
I am not going to even look for areas of fault here, as the work involved to produce a guide such as this is immense. We need to give them our full support, even if we just pore over them at home or snatch the odd route. So next time you’re thumbing through the guide in the shop, keep going to the counter, hand over your cash, as this book will inspire you to make those visits to the Lakes. Even if you just pore over the guide, that in itself is enough to buy it.”

(Mark Baggy Richards, AMI News - March 2008)

'First impressions are that the guide is robust and follows the familiar easy-to-use FRCC format. And as soon as I opened the guide and started thumbing through its pages I felt excited by the superb pictures of a climbing area that is all too easily dismissed in the winter by climbers heading for more reliable Scottish terrain.
Unusually, for a British winter guidebook, crag diagrams are replaced by colour phototopos, a luxury that has paid off, showing clear lines that are easy to follow on the page.

Very few guidebooks really suck me in, this Lakeland winter guide can now be added to this special category. I know reviews are meant to highlight the good and the bad, but I cannot see anything but good in this guide. I truly love it'

(Climb magazine / March 07)

'The Lake District isn't the first place Irish climbers would think of for winter climbs. But this guidebook with nearly 1000 routes, very many of them modern, show that global warning hasn't had a serious affect on the Lakeland winter.

The guide covers a wide variety of climbs, with routes in nearly every corner of Lakeland, and a few in the Howgill Fells. The diagrams are excellent, and the photographs are equally good.

It is altogether a really lovely book, good to handle in solid plastic binding, and if like me, you know the Lake District, a good read. A worthy publication for the FRCC centenary'