| U.K. Climbing |
| 100 Classic Routes in North Wales (1988) |
| Steve Ashton |
| Funny, informative, rude, this book is everything a climbing guide should and could be, but almost always isn't. |
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| Ben Nevis (1986) |
| Ken Crocket |
| Climbing historian Ken Crocket is in his element on his home ground, running riot with a wealth of action and incidents which help him to reconstruct the story of Britain's highest mountain. |
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| Classic Rock (1978) |
| Ed. Ken Wilson |
| Wilson does a 'Hard Rock' on climbs below VS. |
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| Cold Climbs (1983) |
| Dave Alcock, John Barry, Ken Wilson (Eds) |
| Large format photo- and essay celebration of British winter climbs in a Hard Rock stylee. |
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| Extreme Rock (1986) |
| Eds. Ken Wilson & Bernard Newman |
| 'Hard Rock': The Next Generation. |
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| Hard Rock(1974) |
| Ken Wilson (Ed) |
| Winning formula of A4 sized tome lavishly showcasing the best rock climbing in the UK in 1974 with large format photography, ace writing and top production values. |
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| Mountaineering in Scotland/Undiscovered Scotland (1947/1951) |
| W.H. Murray |
| Two books in which romantic, dreamy, inter-war climber Murray paints a romantic, dreamy picture of 30 &40s Highland Scotland, and recalls climbing epics of Wagnerian proportions experienced when battling with the forces of nature. |
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| Rock Climbing in the English Lake District (1897) |
| Owen Glynne Jones |
| Maverick pioneer rock-jock Jones takes an idiosyncratic look at state-of-the-art Victorian Lakes climbs with the help of talented proto-adventure photographers the Abraham Bros. |
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| Scotland's Winter Mountains (1986) |
| Martin Moran |
| Mountain-Guide and Winter Munroist Moran enthuses about all aspects of Scottish winter mountaineering in an irrepressibly infectious manner. It seems everything about it is great-even getting soaked in a stinking bothy -in fact why would anyone want to do anything else? |
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| The Black Cliff (1971) |
| Jack Soper, Ken Wilson & Pete Crew |
| The complete and utter story of climbing on Clogwyn du'r Arddu. |
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| The First Tigers (1972) |
| Alan Hankinson |
| Eccentric elements of the late Victorian & Edwardian bourgeoisie invent mad new British sport one drizzly Easter bank holiday. It involves slimy gullies, waxed moustaches, Meerschaum pipes, and standing on each others' shoulders in a manfully, but vaguely homo-erotic way. Rock climbing is born! |
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| The Heart of Lakeland (1908) |
| Lehman J Oppenheimer |
| Jolly reminiscences of turn of the century climbing in Buttermere and the western Lakes. |
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| The Mountain Men (1977) |
| Alan Hankinson |
| A chronologically contemporary story to that of the early antics of Cumberland climbers, but occurring down the Irish Sea coast in Snowdonia. |
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