Rockfax Peak Bouldering

With a variety of crags and easy access, all is possible in the Peak area. The main attractions are the extensive gritstone crags that stretch from Wimberry in the northwest, through the eastern edges and the central grit crags, and on to Staffordshire. The range and concentration of the bouldering is immense and varied, sometimes on the edges themselves, sometimes on the blocks dotted around and beneath the crag. As an additional attraction, there is some intense limestone bouldering with fingery eliminates and powerful stamina traverses. This book has all you need to choose and find the best areas for you, and to get the most out of your visits. It has enough bouldering to last most people a lifetime.

Peak Bouldering brings everything together in a massive 640 pages. There are over 4800 distinct problems described on over 60 separate crags.

The book doesn’t cover all of the bouldering on offer in the Peak – that would be almost impossible for a single book. Eliminates and combination problems are only included where they are popular, and sit-down starts tend to be mentioned as add-ons to most problems unless they are particularly significant.

New edition: it brings the coverage up-to-date, doing justice to the pace of development in the area in the last 10 years. The majority of the crags have been re-photographed, there are new maps, stunning new action photos, and every problem has been re-assessed based on the feedback received on UKClimbing Logbooks.

Coverage:

• Northern Peak: Wimberry, Hobson Moor Quarry, New Mills Tor, Howshaw and Back Tor, Derwent Edges

• Sheffield Area: Wharncliffe, Rivelin, Wyming Brook, Bell Hagg

• Stanage Area: Bamford, Stanage

• Burbage Valley: Higgar Tor, Burbage West, Burbage North, Burbage South Edge, Burbage South Valley, Owler Tor and Mother Cap, Secret Garden, Millstone

• Derwent Gritstone: Padley/Yarncliffe, Froggatt, Curbar Edge and Field, Baslow, Gardoms, Birchen

• Central Limestone: Conies Dale, Stoney, Deep Dale (Badger Cove), Blackwell Dale, Raven Tor, Rubicon, Taddington Dale, Alport Area, Harborough Rocks

• Central Grit: Harland Edge, Robin Hood's Stride, Cratcliffe, Clifftop Boulder, Stanton Moor, Stanton-in-the-Woods, Rowtor Rocks

• Matlock Area: Matlock Quarries, The P, The C, Cocking Tor, Turningstone Edge, Bradley Edge, Black Rocks, Shining Cliff

• Staffordshire: The Roaches, The Skyline, Five Clouds, Ramshaw, Newstones and Baldstones, Gib Torr, Wolf Edge 

Details:

• Published: August 2023
• Authors: Adrian Berry, Alan James
• Edition: 3rd
• No. of Pages: 640