Discover the best Winter Climbs around Ben Nevis and Glen Coe
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Winter Climbs Ben Nevis and Glen Coe
by Mike Pescod
A practical guidebook to the best winter climbing routes around Ben Nevis and Glen Coe, with over 900 buttresses, ridges and gullies described giving climbers a wide choice of grades and types. Scottish winter climbing is world renowned, nowhere is it better than on Ben Nevis, the peaks of Glen Coe and surrounding mountains. More...
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Seasons
from October to May with February and March offering the most reliable climbing and April the Read More... unique ice climbing that Ben Nevis is famed forCentres
Fort William and Glen Coe on the west coast of ScotlandDifficulty
everything from first steps in grade I snow gullies to the hardest traditional winter climb in the Read More... world with information on how to judge the climbing conditions and choose the best routeMust See
from the classic climbs of Point Five Gully, the Aonach Eagach and Crowberry Gully to the modern Read More... masterpieces of The Secret and Anubis, on Ben Nevis, Aonach Mor and Beag, The Grey Coires and Mamores, Bidean nam Bian and Buachaille Etive MorBen Nevis is back at the centre of Scottish winter climbing, and features the hardest traditional winter climbing in the world. This guidebook describes over 900 climbs here and around Glen Coe, including all the new routes of the last eight years and, for the first time, routes on the newly developed crags on Stob Coire nan Laoigh and Mullach nan Coirean.
- illustrated on 89 colour photo-topos
- information on where to go and what to climb in different weather, snow and ice conditions and how to judge
- anecdotes from well-known climbers for further insights and inspiration.
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