Climbing guidebooks for Germany

As usual, Sebastian Schwertner brings light into the Franconian undergrowth in the 13th edition through detailed topos, exact approach descriptions and area maps. Compared to the previous edition, the climbing guide Frankenjura Volume 2 has been expanded by another eight pages to a total of 584 pages. In total 2 6500 routes are described. The comments on almost every route...

A slip of the foot, the fall, months and years of efforts going up in smoke. In 2015, Romain Desgranges comes within a hair's breadth of winning the Climbing World Cup. He chooses to overcome his disappointment into the Californian desert of Joshua Tree. Only surrounded by "Big boulders", he confronts his fears by climbing solo these granite blocks, some of which reach...

This quite is the mother of all Panico guidebooks - with this everything startes in 1980. The Lenninger Alb is the fastest accessible part of the middle Alb from Stuttgart - and accordingly popular: Reußenstein and Kesselwand with almost 300 routes are definitely among the top spots of the Schwäbische Alb. But the area still has some small, but fine Swabian specialties worth...