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Scottish Winter Climbs

This is a superb new edition full-colour guide to the finest winter climbs in Scotland. The second edition of this indispensible guidebook to winter climbing has been fully updated and expanded to detail over 900 of the finest winter climbs in Scotland with the emphasis on the popular lower and mid-grade classics. Colour action photographs photo-diagrams and maps supplement accurate descriptions to make this an essential item for any winter mountaineer.This is another in a new generation of popular guides by the definitive publisher of climbers guidebooks to Scotland. It is an essential winter guidebook and the only one which covers the whole of Scotland. The book is completely revised to take account of the change of climbing habits and weather conditions in the Scottish mountains. It
presents accurate up to date descriptions supplemented by colour cliff photo-diagrams and maps. It also covers a large number of climbs across the grades with emphasis on the lower and mid-grade classics. It is user friendly in a successful and well presented format. It also features robust construction with page marker ribbon to ease location of climbs.
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This is a superb new edition full-colour guide to the finest winter climbs in Scotl&. The second edition of this indispensible guidebook to winter climbing has been fully updated & expanded to detail over 900 of the finest winter climbs in Scotland with the emphasis on the popular lower & mid-grade classics. Colour action photographs photo-diagrams & maps supplement accurate descriptions to make this an essential item for any winter mountaineer. This is another in a new generation of popular guides by the definitive publisher of climbers guidebooks to Scotl&. It is an essential winter guidebook & the only one which covers the whole of Scotl&. The book is completely revised to take account of the change of climbing habits & weather conditions in the Scottish mountains. It presents accurate up to date descriptions supplemented by colour cliff photo-diagrams & maps. It also covers a large number of climbs across the grades with emphasis on the lower & mid-grade classics. It is user friendly in a successful & well presented format. It also features robust construction with page marker ribbon to ease location of climbs.

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