Climbing guidebooks for Switzerland

The climbing guide for the region of Biel/Bienne. With 12 sites around Lake Biel, including around 600 routes for all levels. Ideal for families and beginners. Detailed photo topo with 144 pocket-sized colour pages.

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...

The first edition of the guidebook Switzerland Extrem East by Edition Filidor describes the best climbing areas in Central and Eastern Switzerland. From the Furka pass into the Alpstein and Vorarlberg to the Engadin, the guide covers a wide range of top climbing areas in Switzerland from the grades 6a to 9a in a total of 67 destinations.

The Jura has many times been the scene of significant ascents in climbing history. So it was in 1986 when Antoine Le Menestrel climbed “Ravage” (8b+/c), then the hardest climb in the world, at Chuenisberg near Basel. Seven years later, Fred Nicole took it up a notch higher with “Bain de Sang” (9a) in St. Loup. After this early euphoria, the Jura walls went through a quiet...