Book description
In this companion volume to the popular 'Scotland's Mountain Ridges'
Dan Bailey offers a passionate introduction to summer scrambles,
technical rock routes and challenging winter climbs on ridges in the
Lake District, Snowdonia, Peak District, Exmoor, Cornwall, the Isle of
Wight, Kerry and Connemara. In 48 routes, he covers a host of popular
classics and obscure gems, from Sharp Edge to Skeleton Ridge and from
Mynydd Mawr to the MacGillycuddy's Reeks Ridge Traverse. With
inspirational photographs, Ordnance Survey map extracts and topo
diagrams, this book is both a celebration of the landscape and a
practical route guide and features a climbing glossary for walkers and
scramblers coming new to the subject. Prolific outdoor journalist and
author Dan Bailey has a passion for the world's wild steep places. He
has hiked, climbed and occasionally hobbled in mountains across five
continents and is also the author of the popular companion volume to
this book. 'Scotland's Mountain Ridges'.